User talk:Golbez/Archive 3

TF2

It's not a buyer's guide, but buyers are gonna come to the article for information on the game. Why are summaries of the major updates to the game inappropriate in a section called "Ongoing development"? I can shorten them if need be, but I feel the information should be a little more prominent than it currently is (scattered throughout). RobAtticus (talk) 06:13, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Tagging content

Golbez,

Thanks for the message. Sorry if my tagging seemed "drive-by," I was trying to follow Wikipedia guidelines, but they can be difficult to understand. In the first case, placing a "citation needed" on the article Governor of Alaska, I was questioning the factual assertion that the Governor is the Commander In Chief of the Alaska National Guard, since numerous news articles have reported that the Governor is not in fact included in any decisions, nor notified of any activity, regarding the National Guard. In the second case, I was looking for a way to indicate that the article in question (Stacey Q) was excessively detailed and lengthy for a person of limited notability. I don't dispute that having a top 40 single makes a person notable, but I wonder if that single accomplishment warrants a page of such length and detail.

(Jayson23 (talk) 15:34, 4 October 2008 (UTC))

That makes sense. How does one indicate that an article is too long? Is there a specific tag?

(Jayson23 (talk) 23:58, 4 October 2008 (UTC))

Hello Golbez,

I am new to Wikipedia and had started editing a page for a notable musician who has already been placed in Wikipedia by someone else. The page was a work in progress and was deleted before I was finished (twice). It was for Jon Ihle who is from Staten Island and was included in a list of noted and well known individuals from their hometown. How do I get editors such as yourself to give me a chance to finish? Thank you for your time. ----DProductions---- —Preceding unsigned comment added by DProductions (talk • contribs) 02:49, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Golbez,why you have delated my Article about Pertevniyal?It was the truht story,about her.In the Turkish section of Wikipedia you can read about her.Its very evil what you done.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zibi Fer (talk • contribs) 18:34, 31 May 2008 (UTC) 

Ok Thank you for your messages.I have understand you.Yes i know my English ist not so good.Butthe Article about Pertevniyal was authentic story of her.Im sorry for the word evil....forgive me please —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zibi Fer (talk • contribs) 16:33, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Armenia does not recognise NK ?

You might be right, but do you have references ? I don't have for the opposite, though. But there is a NK embassy in Yerevan...--80.15.243.10 (talk) 01:35, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Golbez I am trying to get into the Wikipedia universe and began posting on a topic I enjoy and has relevance for all to use. Please send me a message next time before deleting / editing my pages. Thanks. Mixmasterz (talk) 14:13, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Golbez .... you sent a sarcastic remark with regards to my trying to add an image to a page, don't you think as an 'Administrator' you would have been better to offer assistance not sarcasm? thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.154.144.67 (talk) 12:42, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Golbez, you deleted the article about Marco Ferris. He is a fictional character, not a real person. I wrote that. You will probably never read it, so here is why he is important: he is the primary reason that the plague in the book was released (also in the book.) If he hadn't existed in the book, the bad guy would have just escaped and the book would be over 1/7th into it.

-Cahuella Bernard

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—Preceding unsigned comment added by Cahuella.Bernard (talk • contribs) 04:05, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Golbez, You deleted the page I tried to create for Koishii & Hush. (You claimed it was advertising where I only used text from an official website) They do have a page on another language Wikipedia here: Wikipedia If I translate that can I repost or is there a way to migrate that onto the English version? Thanks Tom —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tomveil2000 (talk • contribs) 13:44, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi Golbez, I have redone the submission and added internal and external links. Please let me know if it is ok now. Thanks! Tomveil2000 (talk) 21:12, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi Golbez, The submission I redid has now been deleted by Anthony Appleyard claiming it is 'spam'. I included internal and external links. Please help rectify this. Thanks and frustrated... Tom Tomveil2000 (talk) 14:27, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Golbez -

You wrote: "Even though my blank maps are high resolution, this does not mean that every squiggle and line is authoritative. These are traces of other maps, usually CIA or UN, and thus public domain ..."
I am interested in using a Colombia map under public domain for educational purposes.  It would be a situation where the map would be shared electronically among teachers and students as an image file, but where it would be difficult or impossible to include the GFDL or CC licensing info along with each copy of the png image file.
I had actually begun tracing the public domain CIA map, or rather editing it with the GIMP for my purposes.  I have gotten pretty far along with it, but then I found your Blank Colombia departments map and I realized its exactly what I needed.  The only problem is the licensing constraint.  But reading your text, it appears the map may have come from the CIA public domain source.  So, I'm wondering if your Colombia map is in fact Public Domain and if I could in fact use it under public domain.

MM

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—Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.107.210.91 (talk) 12:16, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

hi~ --Golbez 15:26, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

you said I posted a "false" link?

X911oz 12:55, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

I created a page about an average community centre in Toronto. You deleted it under the rules of 'speedy delete'. In your justification for deleting it you mention two things (1) no improvement in the page, and (2) nothing to indicate why the CC is notable.

There is nothing notable about the CC. I only added it because it is my local CC and I wanted to create an article with a geographic reference. So, I take it from your comment that an ordinary community centre is not a valid subject for a wikipedia page?

Qwavel (talk) 18:31, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

List of Kentucky state insignia

Looks like our List of Governors of Kentucky is on its way to FL status. Let me ask your opinion on another list – List of Kentucky state insignia. I recently created this list with the intent of bringing it to FL, but held off on the nom because I thought the lead was too short. However, no one seems to have mentioned this as a problem in the nom for List of state symbols of Maryland, which also has a very short lead. Do you think this list has a chance of making FL? Acdixon 21:19, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

The only holdups I can see on List of Governors of California would be if someone said the lead was too short or if someone complained about the red-linked amendment. Do you have enough information to stub that in? I wish I had pictures of all the Kentucky governors; that really makes the list look a lot better. Acdixon 21:28, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

If you're interested, I nominated List of Kentucky state insignia for FL status today. Acdixon 18:55, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Image:Canada provinces evolution.gif

Hi Golbez!

You've done a really nice job on Image:Canada provinces evolution.gif. It's really impressive. However, I wonder if you wouldn't consider making some changes to it. It appears you used Territorial evolution of Canada for the basis of the map, but British Columbia is drawn with its modern-day boundaries (with no Alaska Boundary Dispute (1867-1903)). On the east coast, it isn't shown that there was a Labrador Boundary dispute; Labrador should be marked as maroon (disputed) from 1912 to 1927, and a small strip of Labrador on its southern border from 1927 to 1949 (or present day). I realize the disputed Alaska boundary would be hard to show, as it's rather narrow, but at least a label with an arrow could make it stand out, and all but a mile of coastal Labrador was disputed from 1912-1927, so it should be colored maroon. Can you fix these? Firsfron of Ronchester 12:42, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the (incredibly swift!) response, Golbez. The 1949 Labrador boundary decision was odd because Newfoundland was granted more land than it had even claimed in the boundary dispute, and Quebec still apparently claims that southern Labrador strip. Thanks for considering some map modifications. It really is a great map. Best wishes and happy editing, Firsfron of Ronchester 12:53, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

wikistress

Hi, I love your wikistress thermometer. Where can I get it? The User you give credit for it seems to have retired. Also, I would like to invite you to respond to: Talk:September_11,_2001_attacks#Baseless_dismissal_of_conspiracy. Thanks, — Xiutwel ♫☺♥♪ (talk) 12:46, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

• Thx for the thermometer and your response. — Xiutwel ♫☺♥♪ (talk) 20:17, 20 July 2007 (UTC) ... I will respond to it later!
• I am back and have replied at Talk:September_11,_2001_attacks#Spread of "inside job" suspicions? — Xiutwel ♫☺♥♪ (talk) 08:16, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

POTD notification

POTD

Hi Andrew,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Mexico states evolution.gif is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on August 1, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-08-01. howcheng {chat} 23:42, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

List of wild mammal species in Florida

Hi Golbez, how are you? Please, I would like to ask, if you have time, for a quick peer review of List of wild mammal species in Florida. Btw, any copyediting would be greatly appreciated to cover my dismal English. :-) Thanks!--Legionarius 05:12, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your edits :-). I plan to put it in FLC this week. What did you think about the list?--Legionarius 14:28, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia Questions

Hi,

I am an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at Boston College, and I am researching the development of the Wikipedia article on the Virginia Tech Massacre. You were among the top 2% of editors for that article, and I was wondering if you’d be willing to answer a few questions by email. Please also indicate at the bottom if you’d be willing to participate in a short follow-up phone/Skype interview as well.

All of your responses and your participation will be confidential. Please cut and paste the below questions and respond by email to gerald.kane@bc.edu to ensure confidentiality.

I appreciate your help on this project, and please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Please also let me know if you are interested in receiving a copy of the paper when it is finished.

Thank You, Gerald C (Jerry) Kane, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Information Systems Carroll School of Management Boston College 140 Commonwealth Ave 326 Fulton Hall Chestnut Hill, MA 02478

Questions: 1) On average, how many hours per week do you spend editing articles on Wikipedia? 2) Why do you contribute your time and energy to developing Wikipedia articles? 3) What types of articles to which do you typically contribute? 4) Why did you choose to become involved in the Wikipedia article on the Virginia Tech Massacre? 5) What was your primary role in the process of creating the article on the Virginia Tech Massacre (e.g. copy editing, fighting vandalism, contributing news, managing a particular section, etc?) 6) How was your experience with this article similar to or different than other Wikipedia articles to which you have contributed? 7) What were some of the most challenging issues facing the successful development of this particular article on the Virginia Tech Massacre? 8) What do you think were some of the primary reasons that this article was successful (i.e. cited in the press, nominated as a “featured article.”) 9) Is there anything else I should know about the Wikipedia article on the VT massacre? 10) Would you be willing to participate in a short phone/Skype interview to talk more about your experience with the article (if yes, I will follow up later by email to arrange it).

--geraldckane 20:46, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Current members of the Maryland House of Delegates

Thank you for your help on the article noted above. I looked through and discovered that you probaqbly had to edit each name one at a time. Above and beyond. from me and geraldk I wanted to say thanks.Marylandstater 18:10, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Secretary of Energy

Thank you for all your help on this article as well as your support.--Southern Texas 21:48, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Tobias

Thanks for reverting his rantings off my talk page. --Golbez 20:24, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

No problem. Gscshoyru 20:30, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Colours

I swapped two illustrative colours as pink is not appropriate and you had an issue with red. Pink is not appropriate. You said it was just for illustration so I swapped. "pinko" and other epithets have bben used and I suspect the choice for the republican was not by accident. Red, blue or green are all acceptable. Pink and yellow are not. These are political parties and it's silly to ignore that these colors have meaning. Please pick another color that doesn't have an inherently offensive interpretation. --Tbeatty 03:19, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Not kidding and since it was not offensive to you, why did you revert? I would have thought that a swap would be fine if you didn't really care, but you did care enough to revert the swap. republicans have found it offensive and have made it known to me and I agree that a more neutral color is called for (Neutral as in Neutral Point of View). The colour pink is not offensive. "pink" in the political context IS offensive and it's pretty obvious since Pinko is considered a political epithet. Use pink to highlight numbers on a balance sheet, don't use it to make a political statement about a political party. Find another color. Don't care which. red or blue is historical. Pink is offensive. Yellow would be considered offensive as well. Don't insult my intelligence by pretending that color has no meaning in political or national contexts. Political parties and nations identify with these colors. Please don't offend them by using non-neutral or colors they find offensive. Its no skin off your no nose if it means nothing to you, so why oppose other editors attempts at neutrality? --Tbeatty 03:30, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

No colours are offensive to me. I just recognize that pink and yellow would be offensive to either republicans or democrats in the U.S. Democrats would be mad if they were portrayed as pink. Pink and progressive have some historical ties though (at least in the U.S., e.g. Code Pink ). Did you read the Pinko article? Red and Blue are historical colors and national colors and would not be offensive to either Republicans or Democrats. Acknowledging that colors have political overtones as you did with your cute rhyme, why would you oppose neutrality? Again, if the colours hold no meaning to you, why do you oppose changing them to a neutral color? Do you not see how the color might be perceived as non-neutral? --Tbeatty 04:14, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

You are wrong again and your lack of AGF is disappointing. I was contacted by a person who would have a COI if he edited. I have never even seen the shaded articles before the complaint was made. Like it or not, the association of colors exist. Yellow and pink are unacceptable. Red and Blue are historical. No one will care if it's green or other non-offensive color. I don't understand why you don't want to accomodate such an easy neutrality request. This is not an extraordinary request. In politics, image is everything so I don't see what you are opposed to. We accomodate requests such as this all the time. See Pink elephant as well. --Tbeatty 13:44, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Why are you edit warring over colours you say you don't care about? --Tbeatty 04:38, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

VartanM

It was not a first instance of an incivil comment by VartanM today. Another one is here: [1] --Grandmaster 07:44, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I hope he will stop attacking other editors after your warning. --Grandmaster 07:52, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

There’s another problem I would like to attract your attention to. User:Azizbekov is an obvious sock, which is admitted even by the admins, [2] and he makes repeated personal attacks on other users using obscene language, but no one cares to take any measures. I would appreciate your attention to this issue. Grandmaster 13:08, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

If you see me act the way I did yesterday, you can block me. Yes I was uncivil and yes I attacked both Grandmaster and Atabek. But if you take a deeper look, you will see that both of them attacked me first and within minutes of each other. That is no way of justifying my actions but I was provoked, and when looking back, I would have no objections if you blocked me yesterday. VartanM 20:23, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

I never ever attacked you. I only mentioned that you made an original research, that’s nowhere near a personal attack. --Grandmaster 04:46, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

VartanM, would you be so kind to assume good faith and present links as to how I attacked you? I believe the summary here [3] clearly shows who was attacking whom. Thanks. Atabek 05:09, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Pokemon Movie Articles

Hello, will the Pokemon Movie Articles be unprotected today? Unless I read the edit summary wrong, it should already been expired. Thanks! SpigotMap 15:34, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Just to let you know that something about these articles turned up on my talk page. Since you have the good fortune to already be handling this particular operation, I've sort of left it to you :) Hope you're well, Splash - tk 22:38, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Dash

Please don't replace – and — with HTML. The symbols are good enough for the MOS (WP:DASH) and are included among the symbols one can add using the list below the edit box. Thanks. Colin°^Talk 23:20, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Maps

Hey there, I wasn't joking about the maps on the Nagorno-Karabakh page you know, ;) I was hoping that, at most, two maps are enough for the article. One map showing the general location, cities, towns and neighboring countries (I think this one I made is a good example [4] and one showing the internal divisions. Cheers, --Marshal Bagramyan 23:35, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi

Hello, i think the new maps from commons is better then other... and Karbakh is a part of Azerbaijan.. You can see also other rayons of Georgia. Thanks --Baki66 20:54, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Ok. but can you show Abkhasia or Ossetien on the map http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imereti I dont seen Abkhasia, that reason ich think a new map from commons is ok. Sorry for my English :) Thanks--Baki66 21:05, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

You write very fast. Ok. the old map can remain there.. --Baki66 21:14, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Bye--Baki66 21:16, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

IP

Another one [5] --Vonones 22:06, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

And this [6] --Vonones 22:09, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks. --Vonones 22:19, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

• I have commented on the noticeboard post. I don't think you should have implemented the block as you were in a dispute with the user, no warnings were given, and no explanation of the block was posted on the user's talk page. Please could you post appropriate blocking messages on the talk pages as soon as possible, while we wait for a decision on the incident. Thanks Papa November 22:32, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

He is back again; [7] --Vonones 01:44, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Yes I'm back, to make "sensible" corrections, as in the Hatay Province article. Read the articles before engaging in a ridiculous revert war, generated by a combination of national pride and "prejudice for the evil other". 151.44.157.161 02:02, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Yes, that's why I didn't block you on sight. Stop using inflammatory edit summaries, and adding tags without giving a reason, and there'll be less issues. --Golbez 02:10, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

What I did was wrong, but I wanted to show how the Armenians get annoyed when a Turk abuses Armenia-related articles the same way in which they abuse Turkey-related articles with an interesting kind of fixation and "prejudice for the evil Turk's intentions". They simply cannot accept the fact that, despite the reality and brutality of the Armenian Genocide committed by the Ottoman government, Armenian rebels of the Dashnak and Henchak organizations also killed many Turkish and Kurdish civilians with the assistance of the Russian Army in Eastern Anatolia. This is simply "the other side of the coin", and they just can't stand it; with the determination to depict the Armenians as "pure angels" and Turks as "pure devils". 151.44.157.161 02:25, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

No that is simply the "Turkish side of the coin" this has been heavily documented, eyewitnesses back than would describe it as one of the worst massacres ever (since Genocide was not invented yet) the Dashnak myth you say is OR and is nonsense. --Vonones 11:18, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm not a party to this dispute (I noticed the block on Flavius' user page while seeking his assistance on a different topic), though I have had significant interaction with the editor in question. I just added a note to the noticeboard discussion you had up yesterday: [8] I'm not certain how it impacts your decision here, but thought you should be aware of the larger history, as well as the fact that this editor can be reasoned with (if only after a lot of effort). We had a pretty nasty set of run-ins between us, but I learned pretty quickly after my sockpuppet report that its not constructive to deal angrily with this individual. Hiberniantears 14:54, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Also Golbez regarding the Britannica thing Flavius said that figure he shows is wrong it only shows two years of an estimate and not the full Armenian Genocide numbers so do not feel like you reverted wrongfully it was fully justified I discussed it with him on the Armenian Genocide page, and than he said "However, his estimation of 1/3 - 1/3 - 1/3 was probably a constant and didn't change much" meaning he is trying to guess the estimates of the full year this is pretty much original research trying to estimate the rest more of a trick reference, since Arnold's estimates are very high than he actual stats. --Vonones 11:21, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

email

Actually, see your email. Tvoz |talk 19:28, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Amateur Achievement Award of Astronomical Society of the Pacific

The Amateur Achievement Award list has been promoted to Featured List. I would like to thank you for your help with editing the table of the list. Jan.Kamenicek 20:46, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Hurricane Dean

Hi. I'm not sure why you deleted the info I added to this article. The edit summary simply says "fix", so I'm not sure what your intention was. Please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:UNITS#Units_of_measurement for help with units of measurement per the Manual of Style. Popkultur 07:39, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Question about YouTube videos

Golbez, I noticed you removed a YouTube video link by Patriot77 [9]. I just have a question, is there any Wikipedia policy on usage of YouTube videos? I have noticed some other pages, where other YouTube videos were used, so was just curious. Thanks. Atabek 02:41, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, Golbez. Actually, there are several videos documenting Khojaly massacre in 1992, available on YouTube, here are just two: [10], [11]. These are very graphic, but they are also a valuable material for an online encyclopedia in establishing a strong evidence of this crime against humanity. Even though they may not have to be inserted on every page, they would be directly relevant on Khojaly Massacre page. Atabek 16:01, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Khojaly external link

You may want to look at this [12], [13], [14], [15], [16]. Khojaly Massacre, according to Memorial and several other rights groups and news sources, was the biggest and most brutal massacre of the conflict to date. Yet User:MarshallBagramyan keeps removing the link from Nagorno-Karabakh and Nagorno-Karabakh War articles, edit warring and removing the link to factually-recorded massacres in Nagorno-Karabakh. Atabek 00:42, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

OK, I suppose that would be another solution. Also, [17], no removal of image of victims from the Khojaly Massacre. I don't understand why this group of users is trying to hide someone else's massacre. Atabek 02:44, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

This group of users? Atabek WP:AGF and don't turn Wikipedia into a battleground. If you have a problem with User:Pocopocopocopoco's address it with him, his not part of any group, neither am I. --VartanM 04:19, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Golbez, can you please respond/address the issue. I think removal of the picture of children victims of Khojaly Massacre, which was there for a while, is close to vandalism along the lines of ethnic conflict. Atabek 07:41, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Greetings Golbez, I removed the image. Atabek should have discussed this in the talk page of the article but since he brought the discussion here, perhaps I can get your wisdom not just with regard to that image but with regard to wiki policy in general. My understanding of WP:VERIFY is that it applies to everything in the article, ie images, external links etc. The image was from khojaly.net, which is not a verifiable source, hence I removed it. Furthermore, these links should probably also be removed as well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khojaly_Massacre#Photographs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khojaly_Massacre#Videos

Also, there are some images in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict articles that use abkhazia.com, which is a propaganda site about the plight of the Georgians from Abkhazia. This site also fails WP:VERIFY hence material from that site should be removed as well. Comments? -TIA Pocopocopocopoco 01:51, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

I have no opinion on the image, so I see no reason to continue this here. He may have brought it here, but I have not acted on it. --Golbez 02:33, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Golbez, do you have opinion of images attributed to "Armenian Genocide"? Is it not clear that Pocopocopocopoco is removing sensitive and well attributed images from a very painful topic to further fuel conflict and insult Azeris? Removal of photographs and videos of massacre, which is a FACT, in this case, is simply engagement in another war along national lines. Atabek 04:05, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

I am not familiar enough with the images and the history of the edit war to get involved at this point. If there's a problem, take it to RFC, but I won't be getting involved in this one. I know the N-K article extremely well; the same does not apply to the Khojali Massacre or War articles. --Golbez 04:07, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Re: Endeavour

yet that's what it is, why not be correct?

For the same reason we have an article at Space Shuttle Endeavour instead of Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour. Even NASA has no problem calling it the "Space Shuttle Endeavour". So "Space Shuttle Endeavour" is not incorrect. Although "Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour" is probably not incorrect either, it's unnecessarily specific and barely a "common name". -- tariqabjotu 01:46, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Canadian Map

Hi, I just wanted to say, great job on the map but, Image:Canada_provinces_evolution.gif. I don't mean to be annoying or rude but your portrayal of Labrador is flawed. Labradors boundaries came into being when Newfoundland joined confederation in 1949. Prior to that Labrador was only a thin strip of land along the east coast, and was granted land from the Northwest Territories. I do not know how to edit animated gifs otherwise I would fix it myself I have provided links to the official Atlas of Canada 1st and 2nd edition that was produced by the Canadian government 1906 Atlas 1915 Atlas Thanks --Cloveious 14:00, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

I don't at all claim to be an expert on the subject, but what I do know is that the boundaries of Pre-1949 Labrador shown in the Atlas of Canada referenced, were established by the proclamation of 1763, and due to misreading of the law, eventually allowed Labrador to claim title to land as far inland as the watersheds of rivers that run into Labrador and drained into the Atlantic and St. Lawrence. The 1927 boundary commission as far as I understand, agreed that Labrador was entitled to these claims and advised the King, but honestly I don't see evidence the new boundary was implemented until Newfoundland joined confederation in 1949, but I could be wrong, perhaps contemporary periodicals from that era would hold the answer. --Cloveious 09:53, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

infobox on Gonzales

If you leave the resignation announced, effective X date in,
then you don't get the random IP editor messing with the date anymore,
or insisting that the actual end date is known, plus you have the advantage that the text is true on its face--merely announced to be effective on X date.
It might save everyone angst. -- Yellowdesk 03:39, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Let's try this again

One last time. If I wasn't interested in a two way discussion, I wouldn't have wasted my time posting , now would I?

Let me explain why I think you are Kian's pet. It goes way back, years, in fact.

- - Years ago, an editing war broke out over SkyOS. Kian, who has no connection to the project and has never used it, decided to edit it, accusing the developers of using GPL'd code and "stealing" from BeOS. He made sure to make edits that compared SkyOS unfavourably to BeOS.

- - He knew nothing about SkyOS besides what he read on the website and what he heard via rumor and when this was pointed out to him, he attacked us.

- - I, in my ignorance, decided to tinker with his user page. This is where you come in. You asked how the dispute could be settled and I suggested that if Kian refrained from editing SkyOS, I would refrain from going anywhere near his user page. It seemed a fair enough compromise and it would call for trust on both sides.

- - Know what you said? You said "Kian can edit any page he wants". That's right. None of us can go to his page, but heck, Kian can edit anything. That's what promoted a couple of us to leave Wikipedia (including Hexydes). Until Kian got his job and didn't have time to edit Wikipedia he would verbally assault other people and bend the rules knowing that you'd protect him. After all he could "edit any page he wants".

- - Don't you see? You were more worried about vandalism than looking at the big picture, how disputes could be handled. It was my way or the highway. You vandalized his page! No compromise! See what you unleashed?

- - It's such a shame. Woomia 13:05, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Re: Sigh

You may have meant one thing but Kian took it as carte blanche to harass me and the rest of the SkyOS team.

You totally missed the point of the discussion and I give up trying to make you see something you don't want to see. I am going back into retirement now. Woomia 12:43, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Mediation

Can you please see Talk Khojaly Massacre. Atabek is trying to turn the discussion into a battleground. --VartanM 21:49, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Images

Hello! You posted on my talk page regarding images and said that I could ask you for help. Anyway, I instead uploaded today lower resultion images of Lethal Enforcers and Reel Fishing related software and hardware that do not focus on the game artwork specifically. Would you be so kind to look these over and let me know if they are more acceptable and/or what would be the appropriate label for them? These are photographs of items that I own. Also, even though I only uploaded these two images after your message and I did so in an effort to better follow your suggestion, this thread has been opened on me, which I find a bit outrageous, but anyway, I would like to know if my new image uploads are more what would be okay. Thank you for your time and help! Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 23:31, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Ganja

I added Historic Armenian community section back to Ganja article. Just reporting myself before Atabek and Grandmaster get the chance to do it themselfs. VartanM 01:21, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes, Vartan restored the edits of a permanently banned user in violation of WP:BAN. That edit was factually inaccurate as well. Grandmaster 09:50, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

But the problem with the edit is that it is factually inaccurate. Grandmaster 13:40, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

OK, but I hope you will remain involved as a third party, as I want this issue to be resolved. Grandmaster 14:05, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Golbez. Grandmaster instead of removing and suppressing the information because it was added by a sockpuppet, WP:AGF and give me the chance to fix it. VartanM 16:11, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Puerto Ricans Missing in Action - Korean War‎

I will work with those issues I can attend when I log in later today, I was thinking renaming to List of military personel from Puerto Rico missing in action (Korean war), but if you have a better suggestion I will implement it. The issue with the reference is that www.endi.com just moved to www.elnuevodia.com so I guess the info was lost there, I will look for a version of it on archive.org. - Caribbean~H.Q. 10:03, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

• Thank you for your suggestions you are right, the list was a mess. I have taken action and made the changes requested. I would like to apologize to you because I had various doctor appointments and I couldn't make the fixes earlier. The featured list is a new concept to me, I have been so involved with writting articles that I was totally unaware of its existence until this nomination. I think it is a great idea and now I have an idea of requirements of an FL. I hope that after all issues are taken care of, that you will reconsider your vote. Take care. Tony the Marine 20:37, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

• How does it look now? Tony the Marine 02:30, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Hello, we have been working with the list since we received your suggestions, I believe we have attended the points you presented in your second review, if you have some time available can you please take a look to the article and give us a update over its current status? thanks for your time. - Caribbean~H.Q. 04:11, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Re: you message left on bnwiki main page talk

Since it is the Bengali language wikipedia, the "contributors" in the "must-read for contributors" are supposed to be Bengali contributors and should have no problem reading the section. I hope that answers your question. --Zaheen 02:39, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Hurricane Katrina

The Hurricane Katrina article received heavy editing today by unregistered users, which I noticed at WikiRage.com. The article may benefit from a good review. According to Wikipedia Page History Statistics, you are one of the top contributors to that page. If you have the time, would you please read over the article and make any necessary changes. Thanks. -- Jreferee ^(Talk) 01:51, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Salyan in farsi

hi dear Golbez. thanks for your message. "salyan" in farsi means "years". I will creat "salyan" in farsi wikipedia & link it to En. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.207.227.53 (talk) 06:14, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

OTRS based citation

Hi, you changed Thomas L. Thompson based on a reference stating "(removing per OTRS:1083315; the subject of the article states that this was a DIFFERENT Thomas L. Thompson.)" at 12:45, September 14, 2007. I cannot read this for myself as there is no login/registration I have access to. I placed the citation in good faith and would like the correcting information for myself. Can you direct me to some way to see this reference?--Smkolins 13:56, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

So I guess I can't see this reference for myself - that "OTRS" is some kind of reserved area only some people have access to?--Smkolins 16:07, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

I don't disagree that it seems I made a mistake - I just wanted to see it myself. Another part is that as an editor you corrected one part of that issue but since I'm alittle more familiar with the article I know there's at least one other part that needs correction. I would be more correct to make this change on seeing the evidence myself. As it is all I can say is you missed something - the Category assignment at the bottom. As for graduate school vs 18 years old - I hadn't done the math so carefully though I think I recall he must have been young but hadn't placed if he was just starting grad school and was very accelerated (but less so than some that have made the news as prodigies) which might fit with his other accomplishments.--Smkolins 16:49, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

McRae

Urgh. Hope you realise it wasn't me that did the blanket revert and I just altered 2 words. --Tethran 21:34, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

And now edited to go in the list rather than joining someone else's comment >_< --Tethran 21:36, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Aye. I ended up in edit conflicts with the person before me. --Tethran 21:39, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Look. What I've put is not to say that the family members don't know what's going on. They almost certainly do. But wikipedia is based on verifiable information and at the moment it's just not verifiable. That's why I've been saying it should be kept as it is until the information comes from a verifiable source. Unfortunately hearsay is not that. --81.107.39.205 23:54, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

/\_ Was me. Signed out by accident --Tethran 23:55, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

WP:N

Thanks for getting it back to its proper place!! :) ~Eliz81^(C) 18:57, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Excellent maps, translation to German?

Dear Golbez, I am really impressed by the several detailed and informative maps in the Commons:Category:Territorial Growth Maps of the United States. These are really the best maps I have ever seen on this topic. I am working in the German Wikipedia and would like to create some articles dealing with historical U.S. territories and Canadian territories. For this reason I want to ask you if you could support me in constructing German translations of your maps (I used some of them, e.g., in the article de:Historische Territorien auf dem Boden der Vereinigten Staaten but I would like to expand on this topic).--Furfur 18-9-07 11:47 CEST —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.123.89.127 (talk) 09:56, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Let me celebrate my first Featured List "Puerto Ricans Missing in Action in the Korean War" made possible with your support, with some Puerto Rican Piña Colada. Thank you Tony the Marine 18:22, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Lock on Hurricane Katrina

There seems to be a lock on Hurricane Katrina. I wanted to edit an error on the main page. The USACE has sole responsibility for the design and construction of the flood protection, not the maintenance or raising local cost share. Do you know how long the lock will last?Sheldonville 18:55, 25 September 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by WateryHill (talk • contribs) 15:59, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

List of Orkney islands

Many thanks for fixing the glitch on this list, which was promoted today. I see what you did [18], but I don't know why or how it worked. I have no wish to add to your wiki-stress level, and this is by no means urgent, but if you have a moment sometime I'd appreciate either a brief explanation or a direction to somewhere that would provide one. Ben MacDui (Talk) 19:11, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

List of Governors of Puerto Rico‎

Hey, I have been working with this article in hopes of getting it to Featured List status, I have done some massive changes to it in the last week but I want the opinion of somebody more familiar with the FL format, and based on the quality of the review you did on Puerto Ricans Missing in Action in the Korean War's FL candidature I think that you are probably the best person to do a neutral and detailed review, are your services available at this moment? - Caribbean~H.Q. 07:03, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! we do have a article on Governor of Puerto Rico but its unreferenced, since it lacks references I started almost from scratch when writing some prose for the list. - Caribbean~H.Q. 01:00, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Iron maiden

Hey. I don't know why but your protection on iron maiden didn't work, instead you apparently unprotected an unprotected page (?). An IP just added {{db-move}} to it, so I have now protected it for a month (I hope). Prolog 10:00, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Kauai chickens

Hi. Regarding the chickens on Kauai: The things are all over the place. I just got back from Hawaii and every tour guide I spoke with said that same thing regarding their protected status. Thanks. --PMDrive1061 15:31, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

• Interesting...I accepted it as fact. I figured they lived there and I didn't.  :) Tell you what: I'll research it when I can and if I can verify it, I'll put the info and the reference in the article. Thanks for the due diligence! --PMDrive1061 22:12, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Gotcha. The tour guides might just have been talking about something unverifiable and I took it as fact. Good catch. --PMDrive1061 23:11, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

List of U2 awards

Hello Golbez, I believe that I have allayed your concerns about the article List of U2 awards that is currently up for FL status. Would you please take another look at the article? Thank you for your comments. Neranei (talk) 01:34, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Featured List nomination

109th United States Congress has been nominated for Featured List status, here. I've read your comments, but now I need to know if you support or oppose.—Markles 13:47, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Hispanics

I honestly don't believe that Hispanics should be demographically segregated from the rest of Americans. —Preceding unsigned comment added by M5891 (talk • contribs) 01:24, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Then it is the system that is broken but I still wonder why you agree with it. By the way, I have only reverted twice so I could do it again without worry but at this point it seems futile. —Preceding unsigned comment added by M5891 (talk • contribs) 01:38, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

I apologize for these self-opinionated, less than professional statements. You'll be glad to know that I am now taking a more professional approach to editing and discussion within this site. Furthermore, I apologize for any stress that I may have put you through. M5891 23:33, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Please help...

When you're done dealing with another vandal's piece of fun, could you help with user:129.138.20.124 please? And protect the pages too, while you're at it? Thanks! Gscshoyru 05:28, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

what do you think?

Hi Golbez, about 2 days ago I posted something to NK talk about splitting the article. Please let us know what you think.--12insan 18:37, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

FL Main page proposal

You either nominated a WP:FLC or closed such a nomination recently. As such, you are the type of editor whose opinion I am soliciting. We now have over 400 featured lists and seem to be promoting in excess of 30 per month of late (41 in August and 42 in September). When Today's featured article (TFA) started (2004-02-22), they only had about 200 featured articles and were barely promoting 20 new ones per month. I think the quality of featured lists is at least as good as the quality of featured articles was when they started appearing on the main page. Thus, I am ready to open debate on a proposal to institute a List of the Day on the main page with nominations starting November 1 2007, voting starting December 1 2007 and main page appearances starting January 1 2008. For brevity, the proposal page does not discuss the details of eventual main page content, but since the work has already been done, you should consider this proposal assuming the eventual content will resemble the current content at the featured content page. Such output would probably start at the bottom of the main page. The proposal page does not debate whether starting with weekly list main page entries would be better than daily entries. However, I suspect persons in favor of weekly lists are really voicing opinions against lists on the main page since neither TFA nor Picture of the day started as weekly endeavors, to the best of my knowledge. See the List of the Day proposal and comment at WP:LOTDP and its talk page.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 19:49, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Map Guyana

Hi Golbez,

Could you please let me know if you finish the new numbered version of the map of Guyana. I don't want to chase you, that's not my point. I don't want to check pages fruitless;-) So, please inform me at talk page

Thanks in advance.Mozztheman 11:49, 15 October 2007 (UTC

Hi Golbez,

Hope to hear from you soon about the re-numbering of the Guyana image on Commons, see: Image_talk:Guyana_regions_numbered. I hope you can fix this soon. Thanks in advance! Mozztheman (talk) 06:21, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Aloha Mr. Supercool

Yes, it's from a video game. But I'm not one of those people who just runs around with a video game name thinking he's cool. I'm not cool at all....

Well THAT's real fun, I'm sure it's the funniest thing on Wiki! --escondites 17:21, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Hello from DonDesignJr

Hello BusterD, Sensei48, TabascoMan77, Golbez

BusterD you do make me feel welcome. However we have unintentionally stepped on a few toes (I should say fingers, typing fingers). We have suspended our Wikipedia activities. We will corporate even without the threat of banishment. We believe the other editors are as supportive to tenderFoots (tenderFingers) as you and Sensei48 are, even though they did pounce pretty hard, and rightly so.

SPAM DEFINED. BusterD and Golbez thanks for explaining spam as it pertains to Wikipedia. I knew of the common definition of spam but not this meaning. I was surprised. If TabascoMan77 or Golbez had used the term WikiSpam or used BusterD's link to spam, it would have made me investigate the meaning, and I would have found it instantly in Wikipedia. Whereas spam left me puzzled: "What spam? I didn't spam!"

Why use the word spam? I don’t see a sufficient connection to share the word. I declare a misnomer. I can think of several more relevant, descriptive names.

WikiSpam I DID. I saw the ability to add links and thought that implied permission. At the very least, it implied adding links was not totally taboo. It didn't occur to me that links in the body of your articles link only to Wikipedia articles. Sorry.

RE-WRITES. Sensei48, of course you are correct about the re-write. When searching for information, my first click is on the big "W" on my bookmark bar, because I know Wikipedia's information is enormous and not tainted with bias such as mine and has links to "Points-of-View" sites such as ours. However, I dedicate most of my time to achieving the Goals set forth by Ideas4Humanity.com (see External Links) and am driven by forces that appear daily without warning, so I may not return to The Little Bighorn for sometime, especially not knowing that it will be approved. But foremost, I don't have the skill to switch from writing on one side of the fence to walking on top of the fence with my bias lean. Perhaps that is a reason for the original research rule.

MODIFIED OUR COPYRIGHTS. We have several articles that may interest your readers as excerpts or External Links. For our List of All Articles see our External Links at the end of this message.

And since it would be beneficial to your readers, Wikipedia editors, and aid in accomplishing our goals, we have decided to modify our Copyright Reprint Permission to offer Wikipedia editors our information to use or not use as they see fit (see External Links). If there are any changes you want, let us know.

If one of the Wikipedia pros edits in some of our material, there would be no original research violations.

LINKS BACK AND FORTH. We have been adding links from our articles to Wikipedia. We will add many more. Wikipedia is a powerful resource, thanks to you folks.

Would it be OK for us to add links from your External Links sections to our articles, with link deletion being the worse action your editors take?

ALL EDITORS. Would you pass this message to all Wikipedia editors? Or tell me how to do it, if it is permitted.

MORE THAN WELCOMED. We feel more than welcomed. We feel honored to be known by the Bakers of Wikipedia's Bread of Knowledge.

EXTERNAL LINKS:

• Goals: [19]
• List All Articles: [20]
• Permission: [21]

Cheerio! Don.

DonDesignJr Spokesperson for: Ideas4Humanity.com DonDesignJr 23:07, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

LOTD proposal

You have nominated a recently successful WP:FL. There have been two recent proposals to begin a List of the Day feature on the main page, which have both received majorities but have not been approved as overwhelming support sufficient to change the main page. WP:LOTDP is a new proposal to try to get the ball rolling based on the original proposal. You can voice your thoughts on its talk page. Basically, what the proposal entails is attempting to run an official trial, and then vote after the trial run on whether to change the main page. Support to run a trial requires much less consensus than support to change the main page. Should we succeed at eventually getting such a feature on the main page it would tentatively look like this. Whether or not you support an experimental trial or not you should come discuss the matter at WP:LOTDP's talk page. I apologize if you have either already voiced your opinion on this matter or already tired of hearing about it.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 21:39, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Hello

Hi there! I was recommended to you by Xihix for copy-editing. So if you copyedited Dookie, could help me with it on my recently rewritten article Hybrid Theory which I've put up for peer review. So I was wondering if you could help me? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Suduser85 (talk • contribs) 01:54, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

roha

hi Andrew - I'd like to bring this to your attention, as I see you have some experience dealing with the IP editor who says his name is Hans Rosenthal, aka ROHA. I'd like some wider input on this, beyond being told that his anti-Semitic comment directed at me should be removed and he should just be ignored. Thanks Tvoz |talk 07:36, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks - I appreciate that. I'll let you know. Tvoz |talk 01:26, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

He's back - now getting rather incomprehensible, and still insulting. Hope this can be stopped. Thanks for your help. Tvoz |talk 03:53, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Forgot to give you the new AN/I link: here. Tvoz |talk 06:07, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Featured List of the Day Experiment

There have been a series of proposals to initiate a Featured List of the Day on the main page. Numerous proposals have been put forth. After the third one failed, I audited all WP:FL's in order to begin an experiment in my own user space that will hopefully get it going. Today, it commences at WP:LOTD. Afterwards I created my experimental page, a new proposal was set forth to do a featured list that is strikingly similar to my own which is to do a user page experimental featured list, but no format has been confirmed and mechanism set in place. I continue to be willing to do the experiment myself and with this posting it commences. Please submit any list that you would like to have considered for list of the day in the month of January 2008 by the end of this month to WP:LOTD and its subpages. You may submit multiple lists for consideration.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:LOTD) 17:23, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

OTRS review request

Hello, I'd like to request a review of OTRS 2007072910002927 (this is my first time dealing with an OTRS request). This is was from several months ago, at the time I felt it had some weird issues, but now its become an issue between editors (I am an admin, but also a party so I'm not acting in that capacity).

Here is the situation, I apologize if this is a little long: You can see the original ticket mentioned here, dealing with the subject matter in the edit here. From my experience as an attorney, this doesn't make a whole lot of sense for several reasons, but primarily this: there is not any legal reason I am aware of that we, as a website, cannot provide facts from reliable sources (and all of these were sourced to the most reliable sources in sports: ESPN, SI, etc) in explaining a situation; to be clear: no party in this situation has ever publicly requested (or received) a retraction from any of these respectable sources. If anything, this information was handled the correct way. There is a bit of extra funny business that went on in private emails, but I'd prefer to initially discuss those by email; in addition, the OTRS person who handled the matter admitted there wasn't a clear resolution and never made any further changes (which seems strange, given the situation). Because I was a little afraid of being punished for asking questions, I decided to stay out for a while. Still, the more I talked about it with other people in my field, the more the situation seemed strange. Finally, this month, more stories were published in reliable sources with new information and confirming the previous information, this time including the text of the controversial emails which were obtained legally through an FOI request (and are now a part of public knowledge; not privileged) while also making clear that the subject of the article is involved. This seems to again follow the standard basis for inclusion in the article --however it was removed under the banner of the OTRS ticket (though not by anyone from OTRS) with a warning that I was doing something wrong. So now I've decided to stand up for something that seems off and ask for a review of the ticket. I hope my explanation makes sense. I understand if we need to discuss this by email. ---- Bobak (talk) 19:49, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your input (and prompt response!). ---- Bobak (talk) 21:10, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

This is completely incorrect. The initial complaint centered on the issue of the family of the subject of the article stating that such information caused damage to the reputation of Mitch Mustain and his family, as well as subjecting them to threats of harassment by other parties. That still stands. For those reasons, this information has to be removed. Furthermore, Bobak attempts to link one set of events to another, without knowing the facts that the subject's family is aware of. The subject, Mitch Mustain, has never spoken on this issue, due to his position, and will not speak on this issue in the future. I have informed the Wikipedia Foundation about Bobak's attempts to put this information back in that damage Mustain's reputation, while also subjecting his family to harassment, including a statement that there are people who wish to cause physical harm, or perhaps, kill his mother. This is unrelated to football and centers around the actions of others. For those reasons, the initial OTRS ticket stands and this information must be removed. -- Caffehamp (talk) 22:01, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Caffehamp, you cannot be taken as a neutral party in any discussion regarding USC. You have written to me in an email that "As you remember after the Mitch Mustain issue, I have been requested by the USC sports information department to start monitoring articles of current USC athletes and making necessary changes." I retain the copy of this email, that is in violation of WP:COI. Please stop. I am getting tired of this activity. ---- Bobak (talk) 22:41, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

	<font=3> Thanks for your support and comments - List of municipalities in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania made featured list! Take care, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 02:02, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

CAP

The United States Air Force Auxiliary Civil Air Patrol is the official U.S. Air Force title for CAP. The Civil Air Patrol should be redirected to United States Air Force Auxiliary Civil Air Patrol. Neovu79 (talk) 04:03, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

I would like to add that no, it isn't. Just look at the Air Force page for CAP [22], or CAP's charter, or any CAP regulation. --OuroborosCobra (talk) 07:26, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Deletion Review

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Crysis 2. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Marlith ^T/C 19:03, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for reverting the vandalism to my userpage, and for blocking that troll.--Diniz (talk) 13:31, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

United States

Hi. Thanks for restoring the interwikis. I was confused by your edit summary. Is there a fight going on that I'm not aware of?—DCGeist (talk) 02:59, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Oh, but I did check the intervening edits--like the proper elimination of the weasel words in the lede. I simply missed the interwikis. I'd observe that it's nice to avoid introducing words like "fight" in edit summaries unnecessarily. We're both trying to maintain and improve the article--let's keep the focus on that and avoid comments like "hi folks, have your little fight, but don't screw up the interwikis while you do it, eh?" Of course, I haven't been perfect about such things in the past myself...—DCGeist (talk) 05:15, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Deletion

What CSD criteria did that meet? Nathan 22:34, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

I wasn't aware we did cross-namespace redirects from Wikipedia: to User:? Does anyone else have this? --Golbez 23:22, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

WP:JIMBO for eg. Nathan 23:32, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Ah. Well, to answer your question: It met CSD criteria R1. I see now that R2 includes an exception for redirects from WP: to User:, but at the moment I deleted it, the target of the redirect, User talk:Mercury, did not exist, having been deleted. R1 allows speedy deletes of redirects to non-existent or deleted pages. That it was a redirect from WP: to User: was why I deleted it, full honesty here, but it also qualified under R1. Now I see my original reasoning was false, but the redirect was still a valid deletion. (deleted at 16:19 CST; your talk page was deleted between 16:16 and 16:30 CST; it was simply dumb luck I came across it when I did) --Golbez 23:38, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Ok, thank you for unconfusing me. Regards, Nathan 23:46, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

"Zoey Zane" link

You must do as you see fit, but I would still ask you not to re-create the link: I believe that it's in poor taste, and out of keeping with Wikipedia's mission to create an encylopedia, rather than a supermarket tabloid. Let the poor girl rest in peace. -- The Anome 01:49, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Help on editing an animation map

Hi Golbez,

This may seem weird, coming from a user you've never met before (but then again, this is Wikipedia...), but I was wondering if you could help, or maybe just guide me, in editing an animation map? This is the ongoing peer review assessment. I saw your user name attached to two similar maps (one of the evolution of canadian provinces, the other of the evolution of the csa during the Civil War) that are featured, and my goal is to get this map of the roman empire also featured (the original creator is not responding). You seem to have quite a bit of expertise where maps are concerned (and wikipedia in general, it seems), so I was wondering if you'd be available for help?

Thanks in advance, and again, sorry if this message seemed a bit weird coming out of the blue.

--Malachirality 05:46, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks for doing this. Let me know if I can help. Just as a heads up though, I briefly checked up on the dates on the map, which rounds them to the nearest 10, and realized that the dates don't correspond exactly to events (they're close though). --Malachirality 16:20, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Re:Congratulations on your legislative honors

Thank you for your message. To tell you the truth, it was a total surprise. I thought that I would be talking to Senator McClintock about some Medal of Honor recommendations so, I went dressed as usual and without my family. I don't think that I deserve such an honor, but I am happy that I can share it with the community. Tony the Marine (talk) 22:51, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Why did you delete the Rawkus 50 page

You deleted the page before it was even completed less than a minute after it was saved. What's your reason? "(non-notable ad campaign)" is not a valid reason. I don't work for Rawkus. This is the first project of it's kind undertaken by a well known record label with a solid reputation in any genre of music given to known and unknown artist that focus on digital distribution in an industry with failing physical sales and pressure from the digital medium.

    thank you  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hhpedia (talk • contribs) 01:10, 5 December 2007 (UTC) 

Requested move

Hey, if you're on here later tonight, could you move User:Hurricanehink/Effects of Hurricane Ivan in the Lesser Antilles and South America to the mainspace? The projected link is a redirect. I also put it on WP:RM. Thanks if you can. --Hurricanehink (talk) 02:30, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Great job!

Hello Golbez! Thank you for your contributions to articles related to US politics. Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 09:27, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Washington Metro

The apology isn't necessary. After seeing the merits of {{ArticleHistory}}, I decided to utilize the template on all applicable pages in my watchlist. I spent about 4 hours overnight to get it done. Maybe I should have done that when I was a little more awake. This template reduced template clutter at the top of talk pages on multiple pages to where the TOC could be seen in the initial view without scrolling down! Plus, the bot that closes FACs automatically updates this template without human intervention, which is a plus. -MBK₀₀₄ 17:08, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Wisconsin Governors FLC

I'm really embarassed to have to admit this, but ... here's what happened:

1. You said I had to fix the "acting"/"serving" question in the article for your support
2. While slightly tired, I thought I saw what the problem was and "fixed" it
3. I went to bed, and (of course!) immediately afterwards realized that I had made the problem worse!
4. And, trusting that I knew what I was doing, you supported the nomination before I could fix it.

I have now rewritten part of the acting/serving sentence in the intro, and changed the note for Scott McCallum (second-to-last governor). It is now correct! If you could look it over and make sure you still support, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks, and I am so sorry about this ... —Salmar ^(talk) 14:00, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you so much! And thanks also for adding the "left office" column to the territorial governors, I have to say that I agree with how you did it entirely. And thanks for finding that reference too! I've been driving myself crazy trying to find references for those dates. Tonight, when I have more time, I'll look even harder once again! —Salmar ^(talk) 18:36, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

WPTC Active Members

Hey, I see you're still interested in the WPTC. That's cool. The project has come to somewhat of a standstill, in terms of articles, and so I was wondering if there any chance you're still interested in article writing? See you around. --Hurricanehink (talk) 19:18, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks much

I don't know if you've followed this fellow's rampage or not. Taken all together, it looks not so much like e-rage as some sort of mental disturbance.—DCGeist (talk) 07:41, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Restoration

You have deleted a page yesterday, the page is linked to the ongoing RfC, I'm not sure if it was linked incorrectly, or if it was named incorrectly or what's wrong with it… I'm pretty sure that I need that page to provide a comment… I'd appreciate if you would restore it, or point me in the direction which will resolve the issue. Thank you. Quantumentanglement (talk) 01:32, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Mysore is now FA

Mysore has been promoted to FA status. Thanks for your comments on its FAC. -- ¿Amar៛^{Talk to me/My edits} 04:19, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the help!

Dear Golbez,

Thank you for your participation in making List of Alpha Kappa Alpha sisters a featured list. This is the first featured list of a sorority on Wikipedia! Congrats!

Best, Miranda 04:52, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

POV pushing

Maybe if I started pushing the Armenian POV, you would start having easier time mediating and the name calling would stop. What do you think? VartanM (talk) 17:15, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Hey man, sorry yes you're right I should have, but I was rather busy today and it kind of came as an inspiration. I was thinking how we could get the constant low-level bickering about "officially" / "formally" done away with, and I think this solves it. If you want to undo it I'll understand, but I reckon its better this way... - Francis Tyers · 17:51, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

There is a report against you on the ANI, I thought you should know. VartanM (talk) 20:06, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Your mediation in 2006 resulted in an unprecedented 17 month calm on the intro. Adil tried to push you away back then, but he failed. I would request that you do not let Atabek do the same.--TigranTheGreat (talk) 22:55, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Template:Country_data_Nagorno-Karabakh

Greetings Golbez, as the nagorno karabakh article has been split would you be kind as to update the above template. I don't have access to it as it's protected. I want to be able to use the {{flag}} function but put in Nagorno-Karabakh Republic as the parameter rather than or in addition to Nagorno Karabakh. Pocopocopocopoco (talk) 02:08, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

FYI, I created this template and requested full protection. I guess it couldn't hurt to have both templates. Pocopocopocopoco (talk) 02:08, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Lachin

I have responded to you and Grandmaster in Talk:Lachin. Pocopocopocopoco (talk) 23:22, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Ron Paul Revolution

Ron Paul Revolution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Ron_Paul_Revolution#Ron_Paul_Revolution

If you have time I would like to hear your comments on this page. Thank you.--Duchamps comb (talk) 00:41, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Fedayee

Hi, Golbez. Could you look at User:Fedayee's block by User:Jayvdb? I think it's obvious that it needs to be lifted. The relevant exchanges are on the Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Arbitration enforcement‎ page. Jayvdb has been acting very inappropriately and one-sidedly. After I reported a user named Ehud for insults, he virtually justified those insults. And now he blocks Fedayee for not assuing good faith without as much as an official warning on his talk page. Thank you. --TigranTheGreat (talk) 09:51, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi again, Golbez. Just to make some things clear. WP:AGF is not a policy. It is a guideline which "is not set in stone and should be treated with common sense and the occasional exception." (WP:AGF). Saying that someone is a sockpuppet is not a violation of AGF--someone may engage in sockpuppetry with good faith (i.e. believing that he is making Wikipedia better).

Furthermore, a penalty should be applied after an official warning is placed on a user's talk page, and the user is told that continued violation will result in blocking. It's spelled out in the ArbCom decision: "Before any penalty is applied, a warning placed on the editor's user talk page by an administrator shall serve as notice to the user that these remedies apply to them." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Armenia-Azerbaijan_2. Thank you.--TigranTheGreat (talk) 10:16, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

History merger

To fix a copy-and-paste move, would you please merge the histories of Hurricane Rick (1997) and User:Jake52/Hurricane Rick (1997)? Thanks. Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 18:37, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

from dacy69

It is not mass revert. It is revert of one tag which flooded many pages. This tag relevancy should be discussed before placing on many pages.--Dacy69 (talk) 19:59, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Don't need to. Lets see how this is one gets brushed aside. VartanM (talk) 20:59, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Burj Dubai from JuanValentin

Please do not write in comments that have been removed due to bias from articles or remove other people's comments in Articles, as you did with Burj Dubai. Doing so won't stop the discussion from taking place. You are however welcome to comment about appropriateness of the content on the appropriate page. Thank you.--Juanvalentin (talk) 23:02, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

As for the reason for my deletion of your changes...I was undoing a comment from last week. I did not write the information about Adrian Smith. But I have been watching this article. And this edit was don by:

(cur) (last) 16:04, 27 December 2007 ChicagoMarketing (Talk | contribs) (27,873 bytes) (undo)

and if you check their ip address it comes up with: skidmore owings & merrill llp!!! so, you tell me.

But it looks like the designer leaves skidmore owings and merrill... The article correctly states this and makes it clear that it was done at skidmore owings and merril, then "ChicagoMarketing" from the network location of "skidmore owings & merrill llp" deletes the reference to the designer leaving that architecture firm?! Oh, and if you read "ChicagoMarketing"'s change, it makes it sound like Adrian Smith is still working at Skidmore Owings and Merrill! (see the reference that they conveniently deleted)!

So, I reverted the comment to the previous that just stated who did what and where they are. I hope this explains why I did it. The article should be factual!!

better you new revision looks better. ok, but then why would it mention, "which remains the lead engineering firm on the project"? Frankly, I would just go with the official line from the official website... see my comments on the Burj Talk page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Juanvalentin (talk • contribs) 00:06, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

'uhhhhg!! now we are bake where this all started. For months it said... up until last week: It was designed by American Adrian Smith before he left Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP (SOM) of Chicago to start his own independent practice, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture in October 2006.[3]
so, now we are back to where we started. Smith is still working on it but he is not with skidmore owings and merrill! SO, make up your mind... either it lists his firm and skidmore owings and merrill or it just says his name!!! It is lame to go around in circles!--Juanvalentin (talk) 17:29, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

EMAAR does not consider SOM as the designer check out EMAAR's website... it is always listing Smith as the designer. And since Smith left skidmore owings and merrill in 2006, EMAAR does not mention skidmore owings and merrill as the designers, but as the engineers etc.... here is some stuff to check out (by the way, this is so wierd... I did not know any oth this stuff last week, but I was surprised by your vigorous effort to defend SOM's marketing department, so I read up on all of this for the new year): http://emaar.com/MediaCenter/PressReleases/2007January16.asp and http://www.architectmagazine.com/industry-news.asp?sectionID=1006&articleID=385534 I do however think that SOM deserves credit. I doubt that Smith designed the building by himself. That is why I think they all should be recognized:
The tower's architect is Adrian Smith. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, is the architecture and engineering firm in charge of the project. The primary builder is Samsung, along with Besix and Arabtec. Third Party Peer Review has been performed by CBM Engineers.
This is simple and states everyone's role.

Let me know what you think. I don't want to just keep changing what you write. But I don't think it is fair to exclude the facts about what the Burj Dubai really is. --Juanvalentin (talk) 17:59, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

List of poker hands FLC

Hi there. In response to the comments you left on this FLC, I have modified the top image that seems to be the source of your concerns. I would be grateful for your comments on the nomination page. Happy‑melon 17:03, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

History Merger Error

Hello Golbez. I'm the person who started the Hurricane Rick article you merged the histories of. I don't mind the merger, but when you merged the histories, the page reverted to a non-sourced version (the last sandbox edit). Could you please revert the versions so that a) The article is back to the state prior to the merger, and b) Darklilac's minor edit is not cleared, since I imagine the same error exists in the former. Thanks! Jake52 My talk 07:28, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Japanese Andorra district map

Thank you very much. Today I updated the article. I believe there are no problem to use your map there on Japanese wikipedia. Thank you for your work and helpful information. (Sorry it took almost 1 year to find and response to your post...) --Peccafly (talk) 02:21, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

IP block extended

G'day, I've extended the block of 76.172.238.31 to last for a year, and so to also block any registered user who might be behind these juvenile and repeated attacks. John Vandenberg (talk) 08:31, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

italics on Armenian

Golbez, so certain languages cannot be italisized, like Armenian? How about Russian then? Is there a list of languages that can be italisised in Wikipedia somewhere? Thanks! Steelmate (talk) 22:38, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

italics on Armenian in Armenian Wikipedia

Well, then Armenian is one of the languages that can be italisized, according to armenian wikipedia, article on Armenia in armenian does contain italics for things like "motto" and look at the text in upper right corner : Արեւմտահայերէն տարբերակ՝ . The url is : http://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%80%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%BF%D5%A1%D5%B6 Steelmate (talk) 22:51, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Armenian language in italics

Golbez, please also consult this source stating that Armenian language is available in italics : http://books.google.com/books?id=yvTlMwIez-UC&pg=PA24&lpg=PA24&dq=armenian+script+italics&source=web&ots=Jn8t0ayfAN&sig=8b4JjsK0yPU8-1lh8SvkTgSxdNc Steelmate (talk) 23:16, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Golbez, I recently sent you message regarding Armenian language using italics. Please find some time to review the information and let me know what you think. Thanks. Steelmate (talk) 21:06, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for sharing your position, but I was asking more of Wikipedia's position on this topic from a supposedly knowledgable admin. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Steelmate (talk • contribs) 21:19, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

You was right about italics on non-Latin script (actually Cyrillic is non Latin as well along with Armenian), I found this in Wikipedia:Manual of Style (text formatting)#Foreign_terms : "Text in non-Latin scripts (such as Greek or Cyrillic) should not be italicized at all — even where this is technically feasible; the difference of script suffices to distinguish it on the page." Steelmate (talk) 22:55, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

U.s. states.

Your forgiveness I implore, but what I write is not false. The four states in question are indeed commonwealths. Virginia declared its self as one in the year 1776. Pennsylvania and Massachusetts followed suit shortly afterwards, and Kentucky, which was originally a county of Virginia became a commonwealth in 1792. If the correct research is done on your part, you will discover that this all all truth, and not false. I would applicate my edits on the article to be accepted. If not in the intro, then in some other place. Would this be acceptable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by LordHarrison (talk • contribs) 19:23, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Syunik

Please check out the Syunik article when you get a chance. It might get hot soon. -- Aivazovsky (talk) 18:54, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Armenian-Azeri disputes always get hot. The issue here is over the inclusion of a KGB interrogation. An Azeri user, Parishan wants to use it to prove that the Armenians conducted a military ethnic cleansing campaign on the Azeris in the region. I said that because the KGB/Cheka is almost synonymous with torture and brutal tactics that it can hardly be seen as credible. As proof, I held up Stalin's Moscow Show trials in which innocent people were forced to admit to crimes that they did not commit.

Anyway, for now, I placed a disputed tag on the section in question. I don't feel like arguing with Parishan over this. -- Aivazovsky (talk) 19:05, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

List of counties in Tennessee - Indian lands

Hello Golbez, I noticed you removed the section about the Indian lands from the list. The paragraph was included by me as a short definition of Indian lands because some of the counties were formed from Indian lands as mentioned in the table. The article is currently in the process of nomination for featured list, the information was added to address a valid concern mentioned on the article talk page. I am going to re-add the information to the article.

You are invited to join the discussion of the featured list nomination: Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of counties in Tennessee

Take care, doxTxob \ ^talk 02:39, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

You restored it. Thank you! By the way I appreciate that you moved some paragraphs below the alphabetical list and restored the table of contents, looks much better and makes more sense. I was contemplating both and take your edits as an opinion in favor. doxTxob \ ^talk 02:51, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

australian maps

Hi there. I am doing a high school paper on Australia and the maps you used to create the .gif file for the progression of the states of Australia are really good. Is it possible to send me links to the individual images so that I can use them for my assignment (with credit/acknowledgement given of course), or else email them to me? I am very new to wikipedia so I am not sure how all this works. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lukewilcox (talk • contribs) 05:12, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

thanks so much! i appreciate it —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lukewilcox (talk • contribs) 02:29, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

I've been working on Iowa Hawkeyes football seasons extensively and it's great that people are giving it the opportunity to be recognized as a featured list. Thank you for your support! CrdHwk (talk) 22:16, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Billion

Hi, im here to explain you why I corrected trillion on the USA article page, first of all the biggest exporter in the world is the EU, and it exports 15,000 billions, how come will the USA have 13,000 TRILLION??? Then, I checked on a page what was the GDP of the USA and it wrote it with billions, and then when you divide the amount in billions by the population, youll get the right per capita, if you do it with trillions the amount is ridiculously wrong. So thats why I corrected it, and I checked everything three times to see if I was doing something wrong. So if I AM wrong, please undo the edit and explain me why it should be trillions. Thank you --Philip200291 (talk) 21:08, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

I editted it again so that it has a comma so it makes sense, you are right it didnt make sense, it just didnt see the commas and dots, now i changed it so i follows the traditional scheme of billions of the country pages. Do you agree? Im sorry for that. Sincerely,--Philip200291 (talk) 21:58, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

List of West Midlands railway stations

Hi. Thanks for your support at the above FLC. It's been a challenge, but I've really enjoyed improving this article. Regards, --TicketMan - Talk - contribs 15:31, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Expansion of Russia map

Hi Golbez, thanks for your offer to create a Russia map (using [23]) in the same vein as your Mexico, Canada, and CSA timelines. Do you have an idea of when this will be achieved?--Miyokan (talk) 03:29, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

That map refers to the pre-Soviet period, intended to be inserted in the history section rather than modern Russia section.--Miyokan (talk) 05:38, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

OTRS

Hi Golbez, is there anyway to check the validity of the OTRS tag of this image? VartanM (talk) 02:30, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, you never know with Artaxiad. VartanM (talk) 04:22, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

John Catlin acting governor of Wisconsin Territory

I started an article about John Catlin, acting governor of the Wisconsin Territory. It probably needs an info box, etc. Thanks RFD (talk) 18:35, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi! Concerning the change in the list of Governors of Wisconsin when Henry Hastings Sibley was elected to Congress as a delegate he was seated as the delegate of the Wisconsin Territory after Wisconsin was admitted to the union. I wonder if the Wisconsin Territory was functioning in some form until the Minnesota Territory was established in March 1849. This gets unclear.Thank you-RFD (talk) 16:26, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

User name issue

Hey Golbez, I'm having an issue. It seems that somebody registered under my old username "Clevelander" and has begun contributing ([24]). What should I do? -- Aivazovsky (talk) 20:58, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Navy Yard

Hey, I see you lived in D.C. at one time and that you created most of the Metro articles. I updated the Navy Yard article and added the Navy Yard/Near Southeast link in the second sentence. Check out some of the projects going on in that area if you're interested. I'm really into neighborhood revitalization projects, so I think it's incredible to see the changes.[25] Also, I see you've run into 208.104.238.191 with his/her edits on the Charlotte article. That person is causing me problems on the Raleigh article as well. Have a good one.AgnosticPreachersKid (talk) 12:22, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Walter Byers Scholarship

Thanks for the FLC comment for Walter Byers Scholarship. I hope I have addressed your concerns.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 18:51, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Content issue

No, Arkansas has considered every one of them to be governors. We've had a lot more acting governors than those listed. Many lieutenant governors have been acting governors for brief periods when the governors were occupied, hospitalized, etc. When Tucker got busted, Huckabee did not become acting governor. He became governor. Where do you get the idea that he had simply been an acting governor at that point? (Yes, he got elected later. But whatever applied to him before election applied to those others.) Look at the history of this article.[26] It counted them all until Mike used the number 44 out loud. Doczilla (talk) 05:43, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

From the Arkansas state government's website: Francis Adam Cherry 35th governor. That number does not fit your number.[27] I already compromised and accepted your basic point by inserting the word elected before those numbers instead of reverting them to the article's previous version of those numbers. Because Arkansas uses both sets of numbers in different documents, we therefore must strive for accuracy. Doczilla (talk) 05:49, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Nakhchivan or Nakhichevan

Hi Golbez! As I promised I added a large number of highly-reliable English sources showing that the name of Nakhichevan is commonly preferred and used except of Azeri sites and... Wikipedia. Pls when you have time look here for a decision. thanks in advance! Andranikpasha (talk) 16:59, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Paris Hilton

Hi Golbez:

I'm not sure what happened on that edit. Trying to figure if there was an edit conflict.

I wasn't trying to remove a link, just to take out Barron's 2nd name as unnecessary. Hopefully it is okay now.

Turning to a related question, is Barron notable enough to warrant an article? I'm just asking since I'm here already.

Cheers, Wanderer57 (talk) 21:55, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Chargers seasons

Considering what has had to be changed to try and help get this to FL status I'd like to suggest all NFL season articles, including throughs already at FL status, be re-written like this. I'll look in to this more once this nom is over. Thanks for your help BTW. Buc (talk) 17:33, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

removal of POV tag on 9/11

Dear Golbez, when I saw you removed the {{POV}} tag on 9/11, saying: "(that a handful of people can stretch a thin dispute over 50 archive pages is not a sign that a legitimate dispute exists)", I was feeling sad. Certainly, theoretically you could be right, but in this case there is a legitimate dispute, which you have not even been engaging in and yet you feel permitted to remove the tag. The dispute is simply: the 9/11 article is admittedly non-neutral, where I think it should be. That is not a thin dispute, nor a illegitimate one. Please do not remove the tag again.  &#151; Xiutwel ♫☺♥♪ (speech has the power to bind the absolute) 06:48, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

"De facto"

De facto is a loan word. It has been adopted into English as have a huge number of our words. "Esprit de corp" is French, but according to WP:ITALICS#Foreign terms, it should not be italicized. The rule of thumb posited there, that words in an English dictionary not be italicized, applies here. "De facto" is in the dictionary (see, for example, Merriam-Webster.com. Moreover, the term is commonly known to native speakers. Finally, if you were to actually go to de facto and its talk page, you would find that the consensus is not to italicize "de facto" except for the first instance, which is italicized for uniformity with "de jure", on which there was no consensus. They are following a combination of two rules in The Chicago Manual of Style: (1) the use of italics for the familiar word, "de facto", is not appropriate unless used side-by-side with a similar non-familiar word, "de jure", when both should be in italics or roman, and (2) when a foreign word is used extensively in a work, only italicize the first instance. Therefore, I respectfully ask that you not revert my edit when I next make it. -Rrius (talk) 02:17, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

The guideline is in the first link above; I initially gave the wrong subsection, but I have corrected it. It appears to be based on The Chicago Manual of Style. I have started a discussion at Talk:MOS (text formating) on the topic. We'll see where that goes. -Rrius (talk) 03:14, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

East Carolina Pirates football seasons

Greetings. I saw where you gave your support to Iowa Hawkeyes football seasons. I was hoping you could look over Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/East Carolina Pirates football seasons and either give comments or support. Thanks, PGPirate 02:56, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Mississippi Famous People section

Thanks for stepping in and cleaning up that dispute with Allstar. I agree that the list should be short and only contain the really famous people that anyone from outside of Mississippi or even the US would recognize. I'm sorry for getting into an editing war, I was not sure how to get another user to review. (Now I know.) 75.65.164.143 (talk) 06:00, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Latvia map error

Hi! Just wanted to let you know that for Liepaja, the lake is not a bay, there should be no indentation on the west coast and Liepaja is simply on the coast. I updated the "blank" PNG but didn't want to just overlay. I can Email to you if you like. Best regards, PētersV (talk) 18:16, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Paris Hilton revert

Hi Golbez:

While you were reverting the recent edit, I was writing a note about "why" I would revert it. Maybe you would take a look and let me know what you think. My note is on article talk page.

Cheers, Wanderer57 (talk) 20:56, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Mexican Empires as part of Territorial Evolution of Mexico

Hello Golbez. Your work is fantastic!

In June 2007 I had left a comment on the discussion page of the Territorial Evolution of Mexico article asking about including the Mexican Empires in the that series:

I was wondering though if the Mexican Empires couldn't be included. At the very least it should be possible to include the Second Mexican Empire's division of departments as shown in the link from Aille above. Since the departments would be different from States and Territories perhaps you could use green to represent them (in a similar but not identical fashion to your use of green to represent the Confederate States in the US maps). All it would require is an extra map (c.1864) plus some addition to the text of the 1869 map (something to the effect that the Second Empire has ended and the states and territories restored...etc). Before looking at Aille's link I had never known of an Arizona department in Mexico (which might cause another addition to the Arizona disambiguation page and a new page on the Arizona department, or at least the departments of the Second Mexican Empire). The First Empire might be a bit more difficult to include since you would have to extend the map southwards to include Central America (from Guatemala to Costa Rica) and then keep them in the other maps as grey foreign areas. Having both Empires would be nice though. Perhaps the page could be divided into sections? One Section on the First Empire, then the section on the United Mexican States (with the Second Empire being a subsection of it)?208.163.48.96 20:27, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Having read a few more comments about the Mexico series, I think the Zacatecas rebellion could be coloured in green (a la the CSA in the US territorial evolution maps) to show it as an area that declared independence but was beaten militarily and that the Second Mexican Empire period could show the Departments in gold (or yellow, whichever looks better). Overall it shouldn't require more than the addition of 4 maps: 1. First Mexican Empire, 2. Secession of Central America apart from Chiapas, 3. Zacatecas rebellion, 4. Second Mexican Empire. Central America from the first two maps could then just be copied (or not) to all the other maps. What do you think?72.27.93.49 (talk) 22:40, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

List of unrecognized countries has been nominated as a WP:FLC

I have just nominated List of unrecognized countries as a WP:FLC at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of unrecognized countries/archive1 and would appreciate it if you could vote in it, criticize it, and hopefully eventually fall in love with the article. Also, feel free to edit the article if you feel that a minor edit is needed. Thanks! Gary King (talk) 06:17, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

I have responded to your concerns. Please close items that have been resolved. Gary King (talk) 21:02, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Done. Gary King (talk) 23:10, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

	<font=3> Thanks for your support and comments - List of municipalities in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania made featured list! Take care, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 23:06, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

IP Needed

I see that you just deleted a page Tracy ....(forgot the last name) I need to know the IP user who was blanking it constantly. Undeath (talk) 23:29, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I reported the user. Undeath (talk) 23:38, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Albina Molodozhan

Could you please clarify your comment on this article? There were notices on the user's talk page that the article was speedied, but yet it was recreated without the notice. Is this not justification for deletion? If not, can you suggest something else for this article, as it does not have any references or assertions of notability? Thanks for your help. —BradV 00:19, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Sorry to step on your fixing of Gary Gygax

I'm surprised, actually, that we didn't get an edit conflict. Anyway, I think there's no harm done. I think. Mangoe (talk) 22:09, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Battle of Iwo Jima

Thanks for the help I added info to all of the recipients that didn't already have some. Could you take another look and see if there is anything else that needs to be done?--Kumioko (talk) 01:59, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Have you had a chance to take another look and see if there is anything else that needs to be addressed. the 16th is the end of hte 10 days.--Kumioko (talk) 14:38, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of wealthiest foundations

Hi, I have responded to your concerns at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of wealthiest foundations. Please respond back. Thanks! Gary King (talk) 22:41, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Re: Mig 19

So, is adding 'tragic' POV or not?

The question is more 'who is right' and I think consensus will only be reached if attempts are made at editing. Is labeling an event 'tragic' a result of POV? Was the failed Bay of Pigs invasion 'tragic'? Ask JFK and then ask Castro, they will both give different answers. So, in the event that the incorrect, POV infected statement continues to appear I will continue to revert.

Sukiari (talk) 05:13, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Your own opinion is hardly irrelevant - you've decided to become involved. Either you accept that the term is POV, or you don't. And I don't think that the issue is settled for good when somebody silently reverts edits, without even attempting discussion, because they don't like what you have done regardless of whether or not it is an improvement in the article.

Sukiari (talk) 22:00, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

What do you suggest if the other party just silently reverts, with no discussion? Leaving the article in a poor state so somebody can push their agenda?

Sukiari (talk) 22:18, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

dropped by to say hello

Hey Bud how are you ? been a long time hope u keepin well ! HumayunMirzaJR (talk) 16:53, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

CSA States Evolution.gif

Are you planning to update this to better visually reflect the status of Missouri and Kentucky? They never had secession votes that were valid under their own state constitutions so using the same color/legend for them seems in appropriate. I made some suggestions on the discussion page. The approach you used for the Arizona territory was good. (You might consider adding the Indian Territories to the same color scheme and adding "claimed" to the CSA territories legend--I'm not sure of dates at the moment but like Arizona they were claimed by the CSA.) It's a nice .gif, but it needs an update, otherwise it might face NPOV challenges on the CSA page. Red Harvest (talk) 02:32, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Regions of Peru

Hello. About a week ago you commented on Regions of Peru at WP:FLC. Since then I think all of your concerns have been addressed. Could you check back on the article to see if it fits the featured list criteria? More comments would be quite useful. Thanks in advance. --Victor12 (talk) 02:47, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

"Shusha Azeri Girl" - Biased Revert?

Dr. Mr Golbez,

I noticed you reverted me back to an apparent incorrect description of the girl caption, especially when the image of the girl was a copyright violation and had an incorrect description, and changed caption in an act of original research. As an administrator, you simply rolled back as an extension of the Azerbaijani editor, failing to actually address the issue, and I see on your record you have poorly managed Armenia-Azerbaijan issues incompetently from both points, Armenian and Azeri view - I expect the utmost integrity from an Administrator, and call on attention for you to properly settle this embarrassment and copyright violation.70.21.139.214 (talk) 18:33, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

OH govs

Hello Fello Alumn

I left the info on the List of Ohio Governors discussion page that would be necessary if you want to actually do the correction I suggested. I could not restructure your intro w/o making a mess of it. I guess if you don't want that info in there you could just leave it where it is and if someone else has the same problem they will find the info there. John5Russell3Finley (talk) 16:02, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Kalbajar

So you are not Armenian ( I am sure you are not either Azerbaijani) but you are very much interested in uploading maps of administrative districts of Azerbaijan in which half of Kalbajar is shown as a part of so-called Nagorno-Karabakh. If you disagree with me, see [28] or see map of Kalbajar before it was occupied by Armenia. Please don't upload maps that you drew according your dreams but refer to the official documents. I call those maps that you uploaded nothing but garbage unless you provide with official sources. If you insist on that those fake maps are correct, you are going to have a trouble as an editor Golbez -- a third party administrator. -Gulmammad (talk) 00:52, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Your map had better not show the half of Kalbajar as a part of so-called Nagorno-Karabakh in the article about Kalbajar. You could put it only on the article about Nagorno-Karabakh, a region which is being claimed by separatist Armenians in the region, and not recognized by any country in the world! But you have included that region to all maps of administrative regions of Azerbaijan. There is nothing called Nagorno-Karabakh as an administrative region of Azerbaijan but instead Khojavend, Shusha, Khojali and Tartar. Your maps are not still valid and for now they are garbage, showing the dreams of Armenian ideologists. When Nagorno-Karabakh is recognized by world community, then you will put them in wiki OK? --Gulmammad (talk) 01:36, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

YO!

Which article are you regarding? Ijanderson977 (talk) 18:11, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the quick response to my unblock request. I don't really expect to be very active on Wikipedia (nor Wikibooks at the moment) but it's good to have the account unblocked and finally have single user login for most Wikis. --Xania ^talk 21:12, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for formatting help

Thanks for your help with my formatting problem.--HB Edit (talk) 21:21, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Damir H.

He really doesn't seem to have reformed much. John Nevard (talk) 03:32, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

User:Mercuryy

Hi Golbez,

I saw on my watchlist that you blocked User:Mercuryy for 24 hours for vandalism, but it also seems to me that their name is overly similar to User:Mercury and thus falls afoul of WP:UN. I'm not sure if they're intentionally trying to impersonate him, but it might be food for thought.... --jonny-mt 06:46, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

The Legend of Zelda (film)

Re: The Legend of Zelda (film): How, exactly, was this article "vandalism"? Powers ^T 12:26, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Ah, the film may be a hoax, but the article was a potentially legitimate article about the hoax. Powers ^T 17:22, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, yes, it was likely to be deleted anyway (thus my AfD), but I sometimes worry about the speedy criteria being too broadly applied. No big deal, really, though. =) Powers ^T 21:31, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

City of Ganca

Hello. I have a question, why did you redirect Ganca to Ganja instead of Ganja (city)? Ganca is the Azerbaijani spelling of the city, so if a person is looking for Ganca they should be redirected directly to the page of the city instead of being informed about the Hindu word for Marijuana. What do you think? --Kimse (talk) 22:16, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh, I see. So, will it be okay now if I redirect Ganca directly to the city bypassing the dab page? --Kimse (talk) 19:51, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

OK, thanks for your help. I'm still in the process of "figuring this stuff out." --Kimse (talk) 19:57, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Deletion Review for Si.mobil-Vodafone

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Si.mobil-Vodafone. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Eleassar ^{my talk} 15:01, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Unblock requests of Frostalf, Trynaa and Twister Twist

Thank you for unblocking Trynaa and Twister Twist per my requests. User:Frostalf is in the same boat as Trynaa, but User:Netsnipe declined to unblock him, saying basically that if he wants to be unblocked, he should ask himself.

I'm not sure I disagree with that rationale, but I think it should be applied consistently. If you could discuss with Netsnipe what to do, you might decide together to unblock Frostalf. I'm going to stay out of this, and I don't really care how you decide. I just want to make sure that the decision making process is consistent and properly considered. 71.174.111.245 (talk) 22:17, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Re my concern

My concern is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khachkar_destruction_in_Nakhchivan

you clearly take an azeri position by switching the name of the article, despite news sources using the other name for the region, not to mention you still have not dealt with the images and the copyright violations appropriately. you neither care to solve nor are fair about the az-am fights. 70.21.139.214 (talk) 04:42, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

News sources use Nakhichevan, and I believe wiki format is to follow correct(most general and common) spelling. As for unfairly dealing, for every tit and tat harassment of Azeri editors, including Osroene, you fail to properly reprimand those acts of harassment to the Armenian community and embolden azeri editors, fail to deal with the socks of Adil Baguirov, accept meatpuppetting reverts without reprimanding and also fail to act on Azeri editors pushing minor bullshit povs from random books by incompetent and unreliable authorship. Worse of all, you fail to clean up the crappy ass copyvio images being dumbed by both the azeris and armenians, and the ones who have to filter through that crap are the average readers. What is the last time you saw an Azeri writing a GA of FA instead of bulshitting about their race or harassing Armenians? I thoughts so, how many Armenians vs "Azeribadjanis" work to FA or GA articles? yea, you are real competent and I am a rash writer... ouch 70.21.139.214 (talk) 04:55, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Page protection

I feel your pain but it has been page protected since Nov 2007. The ethos of Wikipedia is that it is the encyclopedia that can be edited by everyone. Permanently protecting the U.S. page is somewhat ironic. I'd leave it open for a day or two and see what happens. Remember that page protection is not a prophylactic. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 03:55, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, I'm very willing to reverse myself...so I'm easily talked out of something :-) Deletion/inclusion, IP editors / no IP editors, censorship of certain content / no censorship of certain content, and fiction / no fiction are some the big Wikiepdia battle lines. I'm certain that will always be so. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 11:52, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikiproject

No problem. This wikiproject was discontinued by the admins, since it caused way too much drama. I was instructed by the admins to remove the tags of that project wherever I see them, which I did, but apparently certain banned users are not happy with that. Please be aware that 149.68.31.146 (talk · contribs) is banned User:Azad chai, and IPs in 85 range must be one of his pals, since they do identical reverts. Grandmaster (talk) 05:19, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

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Thanks!

Thanks for backing me up against MrLinkeonaugh (talk · contribs). How did you know he posted a goatse on my talk page? (I least I removed it as soon as he posted it.) - 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 03:26, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Reply

I replied at my talk page. Realist2 (talk) 20:54, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

IP

Hi. Thanks for warning the IP 149.68.164.129, but you should be aware that it is banned User:Azad chai/User:Azerbaboon. It is in the same range as the CU proven sock 149.68.31.146 (talk · contribs) and the edits are absolutely identical. Grandmaster (talk) 18:09, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Lori Bazzill

you created a page on her which was deleted. Was this page surpossed to be on Jordan Capri, and if so, how did you know her real name (any sourses?). Thanks Dingyv03 (talk) 01:48, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

LAPD line of duty list at FLC

Hi. I replied to your comment at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Los Angeles Police Department officers killed in the line of duty regarding the numbers, simply asking if you can think of anything else to identify. Thanks -- ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 05:32, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

{{helpme}} Abuser

Hi Golbez, I see you picked up on that {{helpme}} abuser as well. His IP was blocked by a CU request so he's using his talk pages to troll now. Would it be inappropriate if I protect all of them? I have gone through full protecting at least 10+ by now.¤~Persian Poet Gal ^(talk) 16:27, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Alright glad I wasn't the only one who thought it may be the way to go. Got to grab some breakfast first so I'll have to get to it later. Thanks for your help.¤~Persian Poet Gal ^(talk) 16:44, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Wow, I think you better look back as his edits and you might want to accuse him of such things BEFORE you come accusing me. I ask that you get your facts straight before suggesting I am doing things. everytime I make an edit, he pops up and changes it...interesting huh. Also, I am not sure where you are from, other than an english speaking country, and metric is not used first in the USA, ever. So if you have a preference, fine, but he stated it was proper form to put metric first. Show me where I can find this. BTW...is it now YOUR job to go through and reverse my edits?? I find that just as interesting. Freemasonx (talk) 01:19, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

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Joseph Hislop

Dear Gobez, On 18 Nov 2007 you deleted an article on the singer Joseph Hislop. Not having been able to find an article on this subject I was just going to make one, when I noticed the flag about your deletion. It seems to have been a copyright violation. Any thoughts on this subject e.g. why deleted, before I start? Best, Eebahgum (talk) 21:34, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll press on with my sources and refs then. Cheers, Eebahgum (talk) 21:42, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Goygol

Thanks for your work on cleaning up the Goygol mess. I think that I have fixed all of the major links. --Bejnar (talk) 21:25, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

ANCA

Perhaps you didn't mean to re-add irrelevant/denialist links to the article. VartanM (talk) 02:23, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

It's ok, I'm glad someone else is watching those articles. VartanM (talk) 19:22, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Yeah My mistake

Yeah it was not Timsdad. It was an anonymous person. It said reverted to Timsdad orginal way, so it was somebody else. Sorry for the mistake.Maldek (talk) 06:49, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Your speedy of Joe Böröcz

Yo Golbez, I am not sure the article Joe Böröcz was worthy of speedy deletion. As most soccer players who have played in a professional league are inherently notable, it seems highly questionable being the chairman or manager of a top flight professional team is not an assertion of notability. Regards, Skomorokh 01:40, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for lifting the block Macabe (talk) 20:15, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

???

are u administrator?US - Jimmy Slade (talk) 19:20, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

in the United States, every state has abbreviation (2 letters), if I know this, but I live in Russia, so thats know every human. US - Jimmy Slade (talk) 19:33, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

OK, I remove abbreviation. Sorry about conflict. And I'm really live in Russia, but I was born in LA. And I think abbreaviations is necessary to leave in some tables. This pleasantly for vision and occupies place less. What u think? US - Jimmy Slade (talk) 19:48, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Template:In the news.

Aww. :( Nearly as bad as "gets," eh? · AndonicO ^Engage. 20:11, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Never take anything personally. Cheers, and thanks. · AndonicO ^Engage. 20:23, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Lachin

With regard to you revert, I do not think that "NKR" has any authority to rename the territory of an internationally recognized state. Therefore, I believe the word "renamed" should not be used, especially considering that the Armenian name is not recognized by anyone. I think the preference should be given to the words like "refer to it as", "call it", etc. Grandmaster (talk) 05:59, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

The new wording is better, thanks. I expanded it a little. Grandmaster (talk) 07:38, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Much appreciated! - Tbsdy lives (talk) 13:00, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

John Vidmar

Hi, I just created an article for John Vidmar. You deleted it about five minutes after I just got a few sources on the page. I went to put my kids to bed and I came back to finish creating the article and it had already been deleted. I think that is a little too speedy. I am going to try again, please allow a sufficient amount of time for creation - at least 24 hours I would think! Thanks. NancyHeise (talk) 02:12, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks and yes

Thanks for the auto-unblock. Yes, it was from another user on this IP pool. I was even able to figure out the individual, using the e-mail directory. Shame he's wrecking it for the rest of us. Thanks again. JohnInDC (talk) 17:03, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Bill2Phone deletion

I am unsure why you thought this was blatant advertising g11.

1. The article was product neutral except for the title. With respect to that, all players in this payment space use the words bill to phone 2. There are multiple players providing this kind of payment which means there is an industry that is of value being discussed. The article mentions the multiple players in this industry which means it isn't advertising but informative. 3. Bill2Phone is like paypal and paypal is deemed acceptable. I would only presume it is because of usage or longevity of the product. (see point 4 and 5 to address this) 4. The article focuses on an industry / payment option that has been in place for 23 years, but is not addressed elsewhere in the wiki thereby making it valuable 5. The industry is in the billions of dollars cleared and settled which makes is significant 6. There were many industry references leading to the history 7. There was no blatant discussion as to benefits of this payment type over other payment types or in comparison to the competition. Therefore there was no blatant advertising.

As I said in the discussion on this piece, I would gladly take suggestions and address. When someone did post, I did address their concerns. As I haven't looked in the last month, I can't tell if there were other concerns raised. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ldevin2 (talk • contribs) 14:56, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Dillon M. Powell

Would adding the fact that Dillon Powell is the youngest person in Escambia County History to run for office make it notable? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dmp888 (talk • contribs) 17:00, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

My Name

Thanks, for the tip ,I will change it.Miagirljmw14 (talk) 19:32, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

User:Evrik/US Democrat

FYI, I have restored User:Evrik/US Democrat. I'm all for someone's right to vanish, but deleting an in-use template (or page being used as a template) leaves every page that transcludes it in CAT:CSD until someone purges each individual user page. It needs to be orphaned, substed, or replaced before being deleted. --B (talk) 19:39, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

• Sorry, I hadn't realized that it was aglobal template. COuld you undelete User talk:Evrik/US Democrat. --evrik ^(talk) 21:34, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Okay. Redirected to User:QzDaddy/dem. --evrik ^(talk) 21:47, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
    • I have re-deleted the page since you have taken care of its transclusions. At some point, the transclusions of the template-space version of the userbox should be changed to the user-space copy ... but I don't really care enough to do anything about it - it's not like we have a limited amount of template space or anything. ;) --B (talk) 22:26, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Burj Dubai- Emaar is unreliable, outdated and Inaccurate

You say that Emaar is a reliable source but if you go to the official website the height is still 629.0 meters but you quote a height of 636 meters which does not appear on the Burj Dubai offical website. I understand that this 636 meters is on an article that Emaar released but although it says 636 meters it also says 2,064 feet not 2,087. Obviously Emaar said 636 meters and 2,064 feet but you put 2,087 feet so you are putting up false information. Another thing is that both Emaar sources conflict with each other as one says 629 meters and another says 636 meters. Since Emaar obviously does not know the conversion between feet and meters and they quote different heights on different sites they are unreliable as a source. It doesn't even say when the tower reached 636 meters. It just says the tower is over 636 meters and Emaar does not even list 636 meters on their offical Burj Dubai site. On top of that they claim the tower is both 636 meters and 2,064 feet right next to each other in the same article. Since 636 meters is not 2,064 feet which height is correct? 2,064 feet corresponds roughly to 629 meters another height that Emaar simultaneously claims on the Official Burj Dubai website. This leaves me to beleive that Emaar is not reliable source because of conflicts between its articles, outdated information, and inaccuries betwen feet and meters. They obviously have no idea what they are quoting. 636 meters and 2,064 feet are not the same thing! I suggest we stop using Emaar as a source and use www.BurjDubaiskyscraper.com because it is a much more reliable, accurate, updated, and clear source with thousands of pictures, videos, and links. Emaar gives us none of these pictures, diagrams or nothing.Maldek (talk) 21:58, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Unclear why Chyrp page was deleted

The delete log didn't lend me a lot of insight into why the Chyrp page I made was deleted. Was it a matter of notability? I would love to know. --65.100.36.33 (talk) 18:15, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Snaptortoise (talk • contribs) 15:57, 22 May 2008 (UTC) 

Rico Page

Of course you can identify the subject! "Rico(Hannah Montana)" is the name of article! —Preceding unsigned comment added by PsychoSchuyler (talk • contribs) 02:41, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Individual frames from your animated maps

Hello Golbez. Nice work on the animated maps. I wonder if you could make the individual frames available? Preferably in a vector format like SVG? Failing that, can you recommend a way to extract the frames out of the animated GIF? Thanks. --Doradus (talk) 18:03, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

It was indeed Canada I was interested in. Thanks for the reply. --Doradus (talk) 21:11, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Re:Azerbaijan

Feel free to revert if you wish. I mostly redirected the rayons because I thould that disambigurating them as rayons would make it more user-friendly. I'm also creating a bunch of disambiguration pages for the User:FritzpollBot to come in, and they will be located at where much of the rayons used to be. Is this okay with you, since you have been a major contributor to the area? I'm an Editorofthewiki^{[citation needed]} 00:30, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Thomas H. Ford

Hi. Do you have any sources, such as a history text book, for this stub? Bearian (talk) 19:53, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for deletion

Thanks for deleting my extra sandbox. That was fast    Juthani1   ^tcs 19:46, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

EMSystems

This article has been tagged twice for speedy-delete and the author User:Mattcavin has each time removed the tag. A warning has been added to the user's talk page. It also appears that this article was speedy-deleted previously and recreated by this author. I would appreciate it if you would take a look. Thanks. Truthanado (talk) 02:42, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Please restore Yisrael Rozen

I usually start translating articles from Hebrew in live versions without using userspace, but it has led to misunderstandings such as this. Anyway, please restore to User:Shalom/Drafts and archives/Yisrael Rozen and tell me that you did it, and I'll work on it there. Thanks. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 04:59, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Previously deleted GraalOnline article recreated in german...

The GraalOnline article that was deleted due to WP:WEB, NPOV, and other issues noted in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/GraalOnline has been reposted at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graal_Online , with little to no changes except for the language translation... The English page was nearly unanimously voted for removal and barring any significant changes should not be allowed back in any language... Vipercat (talk) 22:35, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

One Flew South

I noticed you A7'd this page last week, and thought you might want to take a look at the new verison I just made. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 18:57, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Image:Mba.jpg

Could you please delete this image? It severely impairs List of heads of state of Gabon, while the one at Commons is best. I'm an Editorofthewiki^{[citation needed]} 22:31, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Trump Chicago FAC

I have reduced the construction photos from 25 to 11. I don't think less would be an improvement while the building is under construction. Could you please revisit the FAC and also help me to understand why you consider this article less stabile than Barack Obama which has survive three FARs.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 02:12, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

I have addressed your concerns. Your review is appreciated.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 07:41, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

I don't mean to be a pest, but would you consider my responses to your concerns.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 12:55, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for taking some time with the article. I am ready for further review.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 17:25, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Would you mind striking or hidding resolved issues, so I can understand where I stand with you now.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 20:20, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Your last edit caused your only remaining complaint. Why didn't you fix it in a way that you would need to complain about.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 14:25, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

(Copied at FAC) Thanks for your recent editorial contributions. I agree with all of them except I am not so sure the word Twin should be removed since there are so many World Trade Center Towers in addition to the famous tall twins. I will probably readd the word. However, I also noticed you partially reverted another editors changes. You prefer upon to on as do I, but User:GrahamColm changed many upons to on. Since I hope for support from both of you we need to work this out. I am on your side on this issue. I will be working through your comments today and will comment if other issues arise.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 14:13, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

A Featured List contest

Grettings. FL directors Scorpion0422 and The Rambling Man have decided to run a contest for FL contributors. We are trying to get some interest in the process and get some FLs for the under-represented topics. If you would like to learn more about this contest, you can find such information here. If you are uninterested in it, then you could still help out by reviewing FLCs submitted by the entrants. Thanks for the time, Scorpion⁰⁴²² 18:27, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for entering the contest. You are now able to select the topic that you would like to work on. While it is a good idea to know which specific list you will work on before you select a topic, you do not have to submit your list until Thursday. Once you have a topic and a list, you can start work. However, you will not be able to submit an FLC until Sunday at 00:00 (GMT). Good luck and have fun! -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 18:13, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for entering the contest. I would prefer that entrants not pick former FLCs, so if it's possible could you please find a different list? Thanks, Scorpion⁰⁴²² 19:12, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Contest

Thanks for the fix. Great way to start a featured list contest, start with a typo.... :) Garion96 (talk) 18:47, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Sorry and thanks

Thanks for revertig this edit. I meant to correct a broken link but in fact I just deleted some text. Anonymous101 (talk) 20:14, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

86.155.123.148 and RC Patrol // How did I handle it?

Dear Golbez: You recently denied {{unblock}} to 86.155.123.148 as an uninvolved admin. (A decision I quite agree with, of course, I would be expected to.) I take it that means you reviewed my handling of his edits, as well as his actions. I would, first, like to thank you for leaving the block in place. Second, I would like to ask your counsel as an uninvolved admin/editor regarding my handling of this event. This is the first time I've been on RC Patrol and an editor has come after me so virulently. How did I handle it? (I did note I went from test1 to test3 after the IP vandalized my userpage, rather than to test2, but I *think* it was warranted.) AubreyEllenShomo (talk) 21:46, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

ITN

On 11 June, 2008, In the news was updated with a news item that involved the article(s) Sudan Airways Flight 109, which you created or substantially updated. If you know of another interesting news item involving a recently created or updated article, then please suggest it on the In the news candidates page.

I know you had concerns at the time of nomination, but it certainly meets ITN standards now. --BanyanTree 13:03, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Silver Line

I'm assuming that the stations under that section were not stand alone buildings. I also checked those pages and they indicated that they were going to be built. Basically I removed the number of existing structures from the list and came up with twenty five. The way you stated your question indicated that some might be built. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 20:43, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Not all of the connections are listed. The ones that I did click on were all planned. That was my mistake. Good call. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 20:50, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Burj Dubai

I notice that things are getting pretty tense in the article and wanted to ask you to keep WP:3RR in mind while editing the article. I wouldn't want to see a good editor like you become blocked for forgetting a policy. Thanks and happy editing, Dusti^{complain/compliment} 01:34, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Governors

Hey there, I converted the external links to refs, but I'm not sure if that's what you wanted. The externals in the article itself though, just don't rub me the right the way. If I screwed please feel free to revert it. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 19:26, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

With the way the refs are setup in that article I figured I did. Sorry. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 19:30, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

List of South American countries and dependencies

Oof, my bad on this. Regarding the pagemove, I wanted to move the page to List of South American countries and keep both French Guiana and the Falklands in the table. I thought it would be better to move because the current title is inaccurate (as would be new title, but less so in my opinion). Thoughts? Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 14:22, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Golbez at it.wiki

The it.wiki username is now available for your global account. Ciao, Ary29 (talk) 06:59, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Re: User talk:207.112.61.127

At this point, I'd suggest that they simply register an account (which is why I left account creation enabled on the range); Davkal is causing enough trouble at the moment that I'd prefer he stay at least partially blocked for a little while. Kirill ^(prof) 03:26, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank You for the help.Tm93 (talk) 08:47, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

External Link for the Energy Information Administration on United States article

I was wondering why you didn't think a link to EIA for U.S energy statistics was appropriate on the U.S article ARUenergy (talk) 13:21, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Years

You would say a year is a "formal numerical designation"; I would say it is not. Where does that get us?

Rather than indulging in an irresolvable debate over WP:MOS, it would be much more helpful if you would familiarize yourself with good style in American English. Since you are such a style maven, I know you have a copy of the Chicago Manual of Style—please take a look at what it has to say on this matter. If you happen to have lent your CMS to someone, (a) please get it back soon and (b) do an online search within the New York Times and/or the Washington Post: note that they routinely begin sentences with years spelled out; I have yet to find a single case where either begins a sentence with a year expressed as a numeral. (Here, to start you off, is a Times search on the randomly chosen year "Nineteen eighty-two": [29]). Very simply, the existing style of the article is good American English style; the style you reverted to is bad style. There's really no debate.—DCGeist (talk) 18:20, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

"The year 1952"--are you kidding? That sort of redundancy wasn't drilled out of you around sixth grade? The editor Golbez is not a very good writer.—DCGeist (talk) 19:25, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago)

You had made fairly significant critical commentary at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago) without voicing an opinion. The discussion had to be restarted. I continue to believe that this is the best WP article ever written on a building under construction and hope you might consider voicing an opinion on the matter.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 07:40, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Regarding your comments at WP:AN3RR

Hi :). I having just noticed the comments you left at WP:AN3RR, I felt it only right to come and say how amazed I was. Having delt with so, so many disruptive editors in my time, it's a breath of fresh air to have someone come forward, openly, and say "yup, I may have made a mistake, and am willing to take any consequences". Thank you. I'm not going to block you, or even take this any further, because when I originally checked out the report, I did indeed look at all sides, and deemed that you were (just) the right side of the line. It's good that you stopped when you did, and I'd urge you in the future to be weary of edit warring and 3RR, but on this occassion, no problems. Thanks again for being so honest ;). _TalkIslander 16:38, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Arthur Fagen spam

Thanks for your help with this, however it seems to be a bit more complicated, see Omer Létourneau. I can't see where the text is coming from in the case of this page. --Kleinzach 00:33, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. It's strange, I can't get it the spam off my screen unless I log out, but it comes back when I log on again. Clearing my browser cache has no effect. Initially I though the spammer had put it on multiple stubs but the problem seems to be with my account. --Kleinzach 05:04, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I wasn't aware of that, but I found I could get rid of the spam by simply inserting a letter space and saving it. --Kleinzach 07:17, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Agreed...

...and I apologize for my belligerent approach in the recent disagreement. As is often the case, it had less to do with the small Wikimatter under dispute than a reflection of real-world emotional matters. That's an explanation, not an excuse. I look forward to working with you productively in the future. Best, Dan.—DCGeist (talk) 18:25, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

CE

Hi I was wondering if you could copyedit on the Episodes section of List of Twin Peaks episodes? It's currently up for FLC and one of the reviewers said that a copyedit was needed for the episode and season summaries, she said that the lead section was fine. So whaddya say? (SUDUSER)₈₅ 14:11, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

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Hi

Hi Golbez. Please would you have a look at this article Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. There are three editors who have been changing the article in order to fit it into incorrect map. The neutrality of the article is being destroyed. I am asking you because I know you are watching that article and have interest in the topic. Thank you. Gülməmməd ^Talk 17:04, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Thomas M. Disch

Let's see ... SF writer, controversial, gay, dead by suicide ... sounds like a really easy target for vandals, so yes, it's pre-emptive protection. Bearian (talk) 12:31, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

A request for the arbcom to examine the Guideo den Broeder situation

G'day - I'm dropping this note in to you because earlier today I responded to a request to file a request for arbitration. My examination of events led me to believe that there may be some use in the arbcom examining this matter, and perchance resolving an issue or two, and you have been named as an 'Involved Party'. As such, your thoughts would be most welcome at the Request page.

Yours rather nervously to be wearing a clerk-ish hat for the first time,

PM - Privatemusings (talk) 23:39, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Why have you deleted my user page, and if so can you undelete it so I may put things on?

I read that you deleted by User page as someone put a one word thing in it. Could you please undelete it please? Thank youFoofbun (talk) 01:09, 19 July 2008 (UTC) Thanks for the prompt service, Golbez! Cheers!Foofbun (talk) 07:12, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Trina awards

If you have the time could you take another look at the list and offer a Support or Oppose? Thanks! Gary King (talk) 00:55, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

I'll assume I wasn't the only one getting "spammed." :p Thanks for taking care of that. KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 02:54, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Many thanks for your help on Template:WikiProject_Brahmoism, Rtiact (talk) 04:10, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Lachin

Who keeps on putting on that flag? Do you know that there is no azeri flag in that city for over 16 years. Why is wikipedia lying to its readers? Zinvats uzher (talk) 00:00, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Your fake flags are insulting to the people who live there Zinvats uzher (talk) 00:03, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Leonardo

Well done. Some stupid person around here is just a little dyxlestic, don't you know? Amandajm (talk) 09:34, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Ha! Ha! I thought it was my stupid mistake, because I had just moved that page, but now I see that I wasn't to blame at all! What a releif! :-) Amandajm (talk) 09:38, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Ossetia

Hey, Baku87 has been adding this bit [30] to the Ossetian war page claiming some of the Russian aircraft took off from Gyumri. The source of the allegation is an Azeri site [31], the same article has been reposted on topix.net which Baku intentionaly and misleadingly is claiming to be the original source. Obviously this is a piece of propaganda since nobody else, including official Azeri sources have made such an allegation. See also: Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#South Ossetia War Please look into this. Thanks. -- Ευπάτωρ ^Talk!! 15:42, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

In the News and US

Hi, regarding this edit summary, I'm honestly not sure. Before changing it I checked the article (lists U.S. only) and the disambiguation page (lists US as an alternative for U.S.), but the main reasons I changed it were for consistency with EU and OSCE and because Modest Genius reported same to WP:ERRORS. I still think it'd be better as US. Please revert back or reply here about why you think U.S. is better. Cheers.--chaser - t 01:14, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Request for improvement

Please help in improving the article List of most wealthy historical figures that you opposed in Featured list candidates. Please provide as many references and sources as you can. Thanks! --Bugnot (talk) 04:23, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Alaskan governors

Hi, I've been stub-sorting your new pages for Alaskan governors, and adding sort keys too. I notice a lot of them have middle initials - please could you add them to dab pages / make hatnotes / create redirects so that anyone searching on the standard "forename surname" version will find them? I haven't checked others, but I had a look at George Brady, and have added {{otheruses4||the Alaskan politician|George K. Brady}} - there may be others needed. It helps readers to find them, and also helps avoid potential duplication if someone else comes along and decides to create the article, by increasing the likelihood that they'll find the existing one! Thanks. PamD (talk) 10:27, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

And I've created Frederick Pearson (disambiguation), to handle another of them. PamD (talk) 10:39, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

And Allen, Lull, Morris... etc PamD (talk) 11:36, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

I think they're all done now (that is, the ones I've stubsorted today). PamD (talk) 12:02, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Image:Mauritania-Tagant.png

Hi, many pictures as Image:Mauritania-Tagant.png or Image:Mauritania-Adrar.png are not categorize because there is a braket missing at the end of the URL category. there is a bug because I can't edit theses pages. And I don't know if there are other regions with the same problem... --Patricia.fidi - Talk 22:35, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

My FLC

Thanks for your comment! I've fixed the article, and would appreciate it if you would take another look at the list. Thanks again! Malinaccier (talk) 15:59, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

United States/contemporary era

Hi, I think you were the one who reverted the edits I made. Your comment was "how could [I] ignore 9/11." If you look at my edits you'll see that, actually, I don't. Check out sentence two of paragraph two.

What I meant to do was reduce the jingoistic tone of the paragraph; surely we can agree that more than just warfare happened in the past twenty years? I leave in every major conflict the U.S. engaged in during that time period - Persian Gulf, Kosovo, Afghan War, Iraq War - even leaving in the last editors use of "Operation Enduring Freedom" and "Operation Iraqi Freedom" to describe the last two, despite the fact that these are U.S. military names for the wars that are not as well known as their common names. I also tried to reduce all the political theatre because I don't think it's as noteworthy to a historical narrative of the country, with the exceptions of the Clinton Impeachment and Election 2000 (you can add back in impeachment if you want b/c admitedly my own political biases probably led me to remove it).

I think the section needs to reflect more than just War on Terror. That was an important part of the contemporary era, especially for the last few years (and it still takes up most of he section even w/ my revisions). I just want to tone it down a bit, and add some other relevant developments - surely, we can agree again that the growth in Internet and computer technology is among them?

In addition, I notice the last paragraph about "four term" John McCain and "freshman" Barack Obama did not always read like that when you check the history; it reeks of Republican bias, but I still left it in. Regards, SpiderMMB (talk) 08:34, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

List of Governors of Delaware for FLRC

Hello, I've nominated the List of Governors of Delaware for Featured List removal. Dabomb87 (talk) 19:34, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Arkansas Governors

Apparently sometime afterwards, the gubernatorial succession was altered from becoming Acting Governor to becoming Governor. When Clinton resigned in December 1992, Tucker became Governor (not Acting Governor) & when Tucker resigned in 1996, Huckabee became Governor (not Acting Governor). That's what gets me confused. GoodDay (talk) 13:39, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

However during Tucker & Huckabee's non-elected gubernatoral terms (1992-95 & 1996-99 respectively), Lieutenant Governors were elected to serve with them before the 1994 & 1998 gubernatoral elections. GoodDay (talk) 18:30, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

The best I can figure out? When an out-going Arkansas Governor dies, resigns or is removed from office after the gubernatorial election, but before his/her 'elected' successor's inauguration (time period of less then 2-months). The Lieutenant Governor does not become Governor, but rather simply completes the gubernatorial term as Acting Governor (leaving the Governship vacant, until the Governor-elect's Inauguration). GoodDay (talk) 19:06, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

...for entering the latest of a long line of USRD dramas. Unfortunately, the guy who was going to bring the popcorn is just a city street, so we kicked him out a while back :)

There are similar edits to the one you reverted: [32][33][34][35][36][37][38] Could you please look at them, and revert those that you see as being bad?

I'd also like to get to the bottom of this, a lot of which apparently happened off-wiki, but I don't have much hope there --NE2 20:00, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

... for catching the vandalism to my talk page before even I'd seen it! --Philosopher ^{Let us reason together.} 23:19, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Oddly enough

We protected today's featured article at the exact same time, and set the same expiring time! :-o Húsönd 01:36, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Emperor KROOG I

You may want to know that this user has been making personal attacks against Jimbo and you on their userpage. --Alinnisawest,^{Dalek Empress} (extermination requests here) 01:48, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

• And you clobbered him.  :) Hope he had fun while it lasted for all of maybe two minutes. A friend and former editor lurking in the shadows of --76.79.100.242 (talk) 01:56, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

perineum

You need to read the discussion page, please. I've asked for some valid discussion and received none. Shankbone tried to semi-protect it last week to keep his precious images in, and it was denied. I will do what I can to improve that article, so please don't threaten me with blocking simply because I want to have a discussion about those images. Thanks, —Preceding unsigned comment added by Now registered (talk • contribs) 02:34, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

The discussion goes back a year for the consensus. You do not alone get to decide what is put on the article, and you are reverting several editors. I also did not try to get the article semi-protected; that's a complete fabrication and you can look through my diffs if you'd like. You just now reverted User:Golbez again. I believe it is time for a block, and I can explain to you how to go about making changes on Wikipedia, especially with long-standing material. --David Shankbone 02:50, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Someone made a request for semi-protection and it was denied; that was the day I registered back on the 20th. It is in the history of the page requesting it. I am new, as I've said, I'm learning the ropes, as I've said, and I am being civil and truthful. Please be civil and truthful as well. I certainly don't recall threatening an edit war; I did ask that we discuss it, noted it in the article's discussion page, and now I have asked for third party mediation. By the way, I've looked through a lot of the diffs, and I don't see the consensus as having the images; we definitely disagree about that, and need to discuss it further. now_registered (talk) 03:26, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Snell & Wilmer

When I recreated and userfied the speedied article, I didn't want the page moved back out of userspace into mainspace without needing an admin's help to delete the redirect. --Dweller (talk) 13:19, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Oh! How would a non-admin be able to delete it? --Dweller (talk) 18:39, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Libro0

Libro0 has already escalated things with this [39] and this [40]. Baseball Card Guy (talk) 01:53, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Turning into a shouting match again Rgoodermote  21:25, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Collective:Unconscious

Thx! --Justindavila (talk) 22:19, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Just to let you know....

you might want to look at this. Not one to give up easily i think. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.239.59.0 (talk) 07:28, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

List of Governors of Alaska

I like it, personally. From what I've seen of American election lists, third party wins are of such rarity that they really stand out. I like the explanation. Cheers! Resolute 15:19, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

User:365 daysz

Hi Golbez. I saw that you blocked User:365 daysz for 24 hours, and I just wanted to make sure you knew that he's currently accused of sockpuppetry. Cheers, –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 16:38, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Ah, ok, makes sense. –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 16:46, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

2004 Indian Ocean earthquake

2004 Indian Ocean earthquake has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. Your friend Eddy of the wiki^{[citation needed]} 03:55, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

overlinking

Thanks for your comment. I can do that for typhoon-related articles, although it's a moot point: Japan is so widely known as a country that it should hardly ever be necessary to link it. There may be a visual discomfort in seeing one country-name linked and another not linked, although this is bound to occur already when a list of names appears in the body of an article in which some names would be repeat links. It's quite common practice for editors to select only those that haven't already been linked once.

On a more practical level, don't you think "Guam" is more likely to attract a link-hit when it's not diluted by a linked "Japan" in the vicinity? To me, the sole linking says something more: "Japan is well-known, but Guam is not, so you may well want to learn more by clicking this". It goes to the heart of the moves for a more selective approach to wikilinking: the less you link, the more likely readers are to follow the remaining ones, so link only the valuable ones.

An expert programmer in wiki-site commented at ?WT:CONTEXT a few weeks ago that in his experience, readers rarely click links anyway. It's not hard evidence, but does point to the need to funnel readers towards the ones we think are more important in the context. Tony (talk) 06:14, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Naming conventions for lists

Golbez, I started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions#Naming conventions for lists, following your post at Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates#Laziness/repetition in names, and the squiffy titles that have continued to appear at FLC. Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 22:06, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Well, here we are

Well they are not fighting at the boards anymore. But they are fighting still User:Libro0 and User:Baseball Card Guy are fighting again the most recent is today. You want to go through with your threat? Rgoodermote  00:16, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Quick not, Baseball Card Guy issued an improper final warning to Libro0. I only noticed this fighting because their talk pages are on my watchlist. (every page I edit is watchlisted automatically). Rgoodermote  00:24, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

I have used the talk pages, Third Opinion, and Cabal all of which made no progress. The RFC I submitted was thrown out. I tried to work with BCG but this is not about content with him. He has just plain been phuqeen with me for months now and his contribs show no less. Is there a board that I can go to where action will be taken against this user's unhealthy behavior? Libro0 (talk) 02:46, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

• More Libro0 lies! Baseball Card Guy (talk) 03:11, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

FLCon

Thanks for entering. You can now start choosing your topics and lists. However, you will not be able to submit contest related FLCs until October 10 at 20:00 GMT. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 03:37, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

unblocking Reverse Entropy Account

Thank you for unblocking me. Namaste! Reverse entropy (talk) 17:30, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Re: I'm a PC

Okay, explain to me how Lead is not just an intro to the subject but a summary of the article as well. Note that I've trimmed down the bit about the data-scrubbing even further. Am I the only PC user seeing a seeming army of PC users descending upon the edits to purge anything that makes MS look bad? A few have even suggested that the whole thing was an attack. If my take on Lead is wrong, I would welcome your impression of what it is supposed to be. - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 03:36, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Okay, now what?

If this fine young anon wants to create a shiny, new section every time they want to trumpet their response, how are we supposed to respond? Clearly, they know enough about how WIki works (but not enough to follow the rules, which makes me wonder if the anon is a formerly banned or indef blocked member). Your advice sure would help. - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 13:28, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Re: Arizona governors

Digging through my copy of Goff (Goff, John S. (1978). Arizona Territorial Officials Volume II: The Governors 1863-1912. Cave Creek, Arizona: Black Mountain Press. OCLC 5100411.), I was able to pull out the following dates:

Name	Nominated	Commissioned	Took Oath	Source
John Noble Goodwin	August 19, 1863		December 29, 1863	Goff pp. 26-27
Anson P.K. Safford	April 3, 1869	April 7, 1869	July 9, 1869	Goff p. 55
John Philo Hoyt		April 5, 1877	May 30, 1877	Goff p. 66
John Charles Frémont	July 8, 1878		c. October 6, 1878	Goff pp. 76-77
Frederick Augustus Tritle	c. New Years Day 1882		March 8, 1882	Goff p. 88
C. Meyer Zulick	October 14, 1885 (recess appointment)	December 10, 1885	November 2, 1885	Goff pp. 98-99
Lewis Wolfley	March 14, 1889	March 28, 1889	April 8, 1889	Goff p. 112
John Nichol Irwin	September 24, 1890	October 4, 1890	January 21, 1891	Goff. pp 118-119
Oakes Murphy (1st term)			May 11, 1892	Goff p. 129
Louis Cameron Hughes	April 4, 1893		April 12, 1893	Goff p. 146
Benjamin Joseph Franklin	Early April 1896	April 8, 1896	April 18, 1896	Goff pp. 154-155
Myron Hawley McCord			July 21, 1897 (in Washington D.C.) July 29, 1897 (in Phoenix)	Goff,. p. 167
Oakes Murphy (2 Not done term)			August 1, 1898	Goff p. 132
Alexander Oswald Brodie			July 1, 1902	Goff p. 178
Joseph Henry Kibbey	c. February 11, 1905		March 7, 1905	Goff p. 189
Richard Elihu Sloan			May 1, 1909	Goff p. 199

Hope this information helps. --Allen3 ^talk 17:15, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Goff does not say when Frémont was sworn in, but instead states that he and his family arrived in Prescott on the afternoon of Sunday October 6, 1878. My other source for territorial governors (Wagoner, Jay J. (1970). Arizona Territory 1863-1912: A Political history. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. ISBN 0-8165-0176-9) gives no date for the oath taking either. --Allen3 ^talk 08:48, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Another item that may be useful for you. The Jeffery Scott webpage uses Goff as its source for Oakes Murphy's 1902 resignation. The text from Goff reads:

In September of 1901 the American presidency passed form William McKinley to Theodore Roosevelt. In most regards Governor Murphy found his views more compatible with those of the former executive that with the latter. For example, although he could state, "I am earnestly in favor of Federal aid for meritorious water-storage enterprises, and I believe it to be the duty of the Government to construct reservoirs or aid by appropriation their construction in specifically favorable places," he was nevertheless opposed to the enactment of the Newlands Act of 1902, a project dear to the heart of President Roosevelt. On a visit to Washington to lobby against the enactment of the law, the Governor was informed that the Chief Executive intended to replace him with his old Rough Rider comrade, Alexander O. Brodie, as soon as Murphy's term expired.

On April 12, 1902, "Oakes" Murphy mailed his letter of resignation to the White House where it was received on the twenty-sixth. (Goff p. 136) --Allen3 ^talk 09:16, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Governor Irwin's resignation appears to have been prompted by his mother developing a series of illnesses. Irwin took a leave of absence between July and September 1891 to care for her and Goff has the following discussing the resignation:

Early the next year the Governor's mother again became seriously ill and he went home to Keokuk to be with her. She died in April of 1892 and her passing was the principle factor in causing him to decide to leave office. Business matters required his attention and so Irwin submitted his letter of resignation to the President on April 18, 1892. (Goff p. 127) --Allen3 ^talk 20:42, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

You should also be aware that, in 1899, Irwin was appointed Minister to Portugal by President McKinley (Wagoner, Jay J. (1970). Arizona Territory 1863-1912: A Political history. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. p. 296. ISBN 0-8165-0176-9) --Allen3 ^talk 22:21, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

For questions about the removal of John Baylor, I have the following:

The hostile Indians saw in the Civil War an opportunity to slaughter the white intruders or to expel then from he land of their fathers. So savage was the death and destruction that they carried to the mines, ranches, and settlements, that Southern and Union leaders alike considered the Indian menace a major obstacle to the occupation of the Southwest. Colonel Baylor, the Governor of Confederate Arizona, had very early decided upon a policy of extermination and on March 20, 1862, he wrote a most infamous order to Captain Helm in command of the Arizona Guards at Tucson. He urged Helm to use all available means of persuasion, including whiskey, to bring the Indians in for peace talks. Then all grown Indians were to be killed and the children sold to defray expenses of the operation. There is no evidence that the order was obeyed, however, and Baylor was stripped of his command when President Davis learned of the incident. (Wagoner, Jay J. (1970). Arizona Territory 1863-1912: A Political history. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. p. 20. ISBN 0-8165-0176-9) --Allen3 ^talk 21:59, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

I have not been able to locate any information either confirming or refuting a December 1862 dismissal date for Baylor. However, based upon the speed of available communication and the possibility that President Davis gave Baylor a chance to respond, a December date for official removal does not seem unreasonable. --Allen3 ^talk 15:44, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

NLT interpretations

I was recently reading a certain page, and I disagree with your interpretation of WP:NLT (you seem to think, and maybe this it what the policy currently says, it applies to any case brought by any editor against any editor, though what you said later seems to be closer to what I'm saying below). In my view, the more practical and sensible statement would be something like:

"Do not state that there is ongoing legal action, or the potential for legal action, in such a way as to threaten or otherwise (intentionally or not) intimidate other editors"

This is because I think it is, in practice, perfectly possible to carry out legal action and carry on editing Wikipedia, as long as you don't bring the legal action on to Wikipedia or otherwise discuss or mention it in an intimidatory fashion (simply stating that the action is taking place is sometimes helpful, sometimes not). What happens, in practice, is that Editor A, in real life, carries out legal action against Editor B, but neither editor mentions this on Wikipedia, and both carry on editing as normal. Legal case finishes, and everything was fine (unless you are suggesting we actively seek out and check whether people are engaged in legal action? That would be an invasion of privacy in my view.) The problems arise when Editor A turns up on Wikipedia and starts shouting about the legal action, either to intimidate others, or to intimidate editor B (or indeed if Editor B turns up and reveals what is happening and complains on-wiki about the legal action taken by editor A - both in my view are a violation of NLT (the latter because editor A, if they had decided not to mention anything on-wiki, could rightly feel intimidated (on-wiki) by what editor B has done). People intimidating or threatening others on-wiki: that is when I believe WP:NLT applies. There is a reason for the "threat" part of the title. It says "no legal threats", not "no legal actions". The rarer (hypothetical) cases when two people involved in legal action find out during the case (or after) that they are (though this was unknown to each other) Wikipedians, makes my point. The other case is where the two people know they are Wikipedians, but the legal dispute is unrelated to Wikipedia (eg. rent dispute). In both those cases, it is still absolutely desirable that the case not be discussed on Wikipedia (for privacy reasons, if nothing else). The more general case that people might run scared if they know Editor A is litigatious in nature, is more problematic. We can't stop litigatious people editing Wikipedia, and people have to make their own decisions in such cases - we can't hold their hands and say "avoid that nasty litigious person over there". That's my view of things in any case. That was a bit long, so the short version is that I disagree with "if there exists any legal motions by you over Wikipedia, you cannot edit" and agree with "It was made not to deny you your rights, but to protect discourse on the site". Where I disagree (and you don't mention your opinions on this) is if the editor in question continues to edit other articles (say, under another account that has not been revealed), and does so in ways completely unrelated to the case and does not mention the case at all, then that is, in my view, fine.

In this particular case, with someone commenting on the article about themselves, it is also desirable (per WP:BLP) to keep communication channels open. I should probably say something at WT:NLT, but came here instead (not entirely sure why). I guess I just didn't want to get involved at that page (too many cooks, etc.). In that particular case, the language used is frank and forthright, and some may indeed feel intimidated by it (especially the mention of jail time), so use of off-wiki communications (e-mail and direct communication with the Foundation) should be fine, without much need to talk on the talk page.

If you agree with parts of this, and those parts are not covered at WP:NLT (or that could be rewritten to make things clearer) then let me know and I'll propose it on the talk page over there (or you could do that yourself). It is the case where editor A files a case, but says nothing about the case on-wiki, and Editor B feels intimidated (unsurprisingly), but is unsure whether they can mention this on-wiki, that I'm interested in - what do you think should happen in such cases? Carcharoth (talk) 12:29, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

WP:SSP

Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Phuntsok2000 has been dealt with in (possibly) record time. Thought you might like to know. _Gb^T/c 19:43, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Phuntsok2000

You may be interested in Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/IP check/Archive#Phuntsok2000 and Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Phuntsok2000. -- Avi (talk) 21:07, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Highways vs. Congressional Districts

I see you've made redirects and added hatnotes to several Michigan highway articles. The abbreviation you're attributing to highways though is incorrect. Only sadly misinformed road geeks ever use MI ## for highways in Michigan. They are correctly M-## since 1919. Imzadi1979 (talk) 00:07, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

...then you have about 200 more redirects to make... but if you try to mass implement the hatnotes other users will shout you done. I was b****ed out for adding them to M-1 through M-50. Now I only add the hatnotes that I do add as I GAN articles. Besides, the few that you've added though do need to be better integrated into the hatnotes that are there. Imzadi1979 (talk) 00:55, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

P.S. Michigan State Highway 1 redirects to M-1 (Michigan highway) and that will work for other states as well. Imzadi1979 (talk) 00:59, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

You can send "MI ##" and ""MI-##" over to the districts directly. That convention to me is more common than MI 1 for highways. Plus the articles have (Michigan highway) in the name, so shouldn't be confused. Imzadi1979 (talk) 18:00, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Right and the M## disambiguation pages exist already. and M-## redirects to M## as well. As I've been upgrading articles to GA, I've been adding the appropriate hatnote to each highway article. Many, many (say over 83 total) highway articles will be expanded to GA this year as part of a WP:USRD challenge to get a highway article up to GA for each county of a state. Since MI had 83 counties, there will be at least 83 GAs attempted meaning a lot of updating and hotnoting. Imzadi1979 (talk) 22:18, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

The anon IP vandalslayer steps forth...

...and it is me.  :) After seeing the nice word you left on my work IP's talk page regarding that "KROOG" nonsense, it got me to thinking that maybe it was time I came back and for good. I'll stay out of the really contentious situations that broke the camel's back the last time out. Looking forward to working with you once more and for a long time to come! Regards, --PMDrive1061 (talk) 07:43, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of "TN-07"

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Thank you. Mww113 (talk) 14:15, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Sorry to template a regular, but I don't think that page is a plausible redirect. Mww113 (talk) 14:16, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing that to light, I have removed the {{db-r3}} and the {{hangon}} templates. Cheers! Mww113 (talk) 14:20, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

PA-17

Thanks for adding the disambiguation heading on the Piper PA-15 Vagabond article. I hope you don't mind but I removed it and instead changed the PA-17 page from a redirect into a disambiguation page pointing to both Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district and Piper PA-15 Vagabond. I think it serves both articles better that way and doesn't make one usage subservient to another. - Ahunt (talk) 18:40, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Ditto for PA-28 and PA-32 - Ahunt (talk) 18:48, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your note - I think it is a worthwhile crusade! I just figure making the redirects disambiguation pages makes all the article more equal. - Ahunt (talk) 20:10, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

thank you

thank you for the lift of the auto ban on the IP. Hellclanner (talk) 11:45, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Re: User talk:75.73.67.102

No, he said his "teebage" child. Maybe he meant his has given birth to one of these or perhaps he is refering to this practice (NSFW). Back to your regularly scheduled program... :) --Jayron32.talk.contribs 21:04, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

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Re this request...

...I have been pointed in your direction. Best, --A Nobody^{My talk} 23:52, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Happy Halloween!

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As Halloween is my favorite holiday, I just wanted to wish those Wikipedians who have been nice enough to give me a barnstar or smile at me, supportive enough to agree with me, etc., a Happy Halloween! Sincerely, --A Nobody^{My talk} 14:48, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Request

Hey Golbez, would you mind taking a look at this discussion? It started as a merge discussion but quickly got out of hand as one user started attacking another. They have also been edit warring Imaginationland: The Movie, so if you could weigh in it would be appreciated. I left him a warning and he left me this lovely reply, he seems to be taking things really personally. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 21:31, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Never mind, Julian got it (damn my impatience). -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 21:34, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

image loss

Hi,

due to a software problem the following image which you uploaded was lost on Wikimedia Commons (maybe except for a preview image):

• Image:Bahrain-Al Manamah.png
• Image:Barbados-Saint Joseph.png

If you still have this file on your hard disk or if you can recover it from other sources please upload it again. If this image was transferred from a local Wikipedia to Wikimedia Commons it can be even recovered by an admin on the local Wikipedia.

Best regards, --Ukko (talk) 15:51, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

User:SRE.K.A.L.24/Head coaches-managers

I created a page that you may like to use in the future. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24_[c] 07:40, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Ron Paul

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Nagorno-Karabakh

Golbez, there is currently a discussion going on at Reliable Sources Noticeboard, on whether or not dubious maps of blogger Andersen are acceptable as a reliable source. Ignoring the results of this discussion and, in fact, prior comment by a 3rd party at the same noticeboard on the same subject "if the maps come from a blog, and they deal with contested borders, then they are not reliable", Meowy is engaged in an edit war reinserting the map, and violating his parole reinserting the map on 19th of November and then 21st of November.

So while I am puzzled as to whether at all, administrators can enforce the paroles set forth by WP:AE or assume any kind of neutrality of Armenia-Azerbaijan subject instead of obviously revealing their pro-Armenian tendencies and grooming of POV contributors, at least there should be some respect in not keeping the map on the page while Noticeboard discussion and conclusions are not finalized. Atabəy (talk) 17:10, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Azerbaijanier editors than you have called me pro-Armenia; Armenianer editors than Meowy have called me pro-Azeri. Honestly, I protected it on the most recent version. If the edit war had been swinging the other way at the time, it would have been protected the other way. As I said in my talk page message, if this isn't resolved I'll switch it myself. But you know what, good luck with that attack angle, that'll certainly get you what you want. --Golbez (talk) 21:56, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

I hope the renewed discussion on the Reliable Sources Noticeboard will lead to a final conclusion of this issue. However, Atabəy's weasel-worded comments above need some response. The maps are not from a "blog", and the particular map being discussed does not deal with contested borders. Moreover, his accusation that I deliberately ignored the Reliable Sources Noticeboard discussion by reinserting the map is outrageous. He himself removed the map, and then immediately afterwards started the Reliable Sources Noticeboard discussion. He did not, as he should have, started the discussion first and then waited for its conclusion before removing the map. Nor did he leave any note in the article's talk page, or in his edit summary informing other editors he was going to start a discussion about the map on the Reliable Sources Noticeboard. Meowy 17:44, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Reinsertion of contested map with Armenian POV for Nth time within 2 days is a violation of parole, on which Meowy currently is. Moreover, in similar case at Caucasian Albania the map were removed (those not fitting Armenian POV to be precise), I don't see why Nagorno-Karabakh case is any different while the controversial and dubious map is under discussion. Atabəy (talk) 18:12, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Can you talk nothing but garbage "for Nth time"? I have not broken any editing restrictions, and have no idea what you are talking about - why would the map under current discussion, which shows territorial borders during the 15th century, be in a page about Caucasian Albania? Meowy 21:01, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

I must remind you that you are *all* under the 1RR limitation as per Azer-Arm 2. That is my only statement. Please take this off my talk page. --Golbez (talk) 21:56, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

And as for the assertion that Meowy violated 1RR: I disagree. Meowy reinserted the map on Nov 19; at that point it had been absent from the article for nearly a month. I'm not going to call that a revert. Reinserting it on the 20th WAS a revert, however, and started the clock, which I then suspended with my protection. --Golbez (talk) 21:59, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Golbez, and you just answered your own question right above. Sorry, I forgot prior incident on your neutrality, but now I remember. Will seek a neutral party. Thanks. Atabəy (talk) 08:50, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

If I were you, I would have started a tally on how many times you were called a pro-anything. Remember that every time you're called a pro-anything it means you did something right. VartanM (talk) 08:51, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Request

Hello Golbez, how are you doing? Someone suggested that I nominate Puerto Rican scientists and inventors for "FL". I was wondering if you could please look it over and tell me what you think and if you have any suggestions. Take care, Tony the Marine (talk) 04:45, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

• Thank you for your sound advice. It is great when someone else can point out things that are obvious and you (meaning me) can not see. Thank you once more. Tony the Marine (talk) 20:52, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I just wanted to wish those Wikipedians who have been nice enough to give me a barnstar or smile at me, supportive enough to agree with me, etc., a Happy Thanksgiving! Sincerely, --Happy Thanksgiving! Sincerely, A Nobody^{My talk} 02:51, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of New Orleans Saints head coaches

I am sorry to not have informed you that I nominated the above list for FLC, which you significantly contributed to in the past. But I also contributed to it by revamping the article to FL standards, I hope that was okay as you may also take credit in this FL.--Tru_Co 14:55, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

United States Picture Gallery

What is the problem with having a picture gallery of showing of the United States diversity and landscape? I can understand that some editors have personal preferences, but this is a good way of showing off the States without cluttering up the article.

State congressional delegation articles and "Passages"

I see you've done most of the work on these in the past, but your user page indicates you've stopped. My question is more general, i.e. why is the word "passage" used? That term doesn't seem accurate, and is a term I've never heard before (worked for the Senate for 7 years). It appears from the context we are talking about congressmen who have left office before their term expired (died or resigned), and someone else was elected or appointed in their place. If it means "passage," as in those who died in office have "passed on" that's one thing, but is not entirely accurate if you include people who resigned or were expelled. Moreover, only a handful of the delegation articles have this information. I think it would be useful to include, and like you I agree footnotes probably don't cut it. But what about a different name for the heading, such as "changes in membership" like the 110th Congress and other ordinal congress articles? Sorry if you're not the one to ask this question, but I thought I check before being bold and doing it myself.

Gandzasar

Please restore links to Gandzasar.com in the Articles on the Principality of Khachen, Artsakh, House of Hasan-Jalalyan. Answering your question: no, this site is more about the history of the region and Khachen and Artsakh more specifically than on the monastery. And the site focuses on the House of Hasan-Jalalyan. Capasitor (talk) 14:38, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for restoring the links. Capasitor (talk) 02:32, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Dates

I see we are occasionally crossing paths over dates. I so miss the good old days when we discussed Paris Hilton in great depth. Perhaps Paris should also be featured in the date intros, due to her importance to humanity and her impact on world events. What do you think? Wallie (talk) 07:55, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

List of Governors of Indiana

I have been working on List of Governors of Indiana, which you substantially edited, by expanding the lead, adding images, and adding references. I believe it is getting close to being able to become featured. Could you please take a look at it and make any necessary inprovements? Thanks! Reywas92^Talk 20:31, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

I've been working with Charles Edward before you came in; our discussion was at User Talk:Charles Edward. Thanks for your help! Reywas92^Talk 23:06, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

What's your opinion with what to do with the redlinks of Lt. Governors? See talk of list. Thanks Reywas92^Talk 01:18, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

If you didn't notice, I went ahead and nominated the list at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Governors of Indiana. I invite you to co-nominate. Thanks! Reywas92^Talk 16:07, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Hey Golbez

I couldn't help but notice you ran for bureaucratship twice, but failed. How do you think you would fare if you were to run a third time? --Dylan620 _Contribs ^Sign! 00:38, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

I am disappointed, but I respect your decision. Personally, I am not only hoping to be an administrator someday, but to shoot for bureaucrat status, as well. My specialty as a crat would be watching RfA's closely. I would tag them as either successful or unsuccessful, and I would promote the successful candidates to administrator status. I would do the same thing with RfB's. --Dylan620 _Contribs ^Sign! 01:24, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

FAR

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Aghstev river

Hi, recently the article Aghstev River was moved by User:Parishan to Aghstafa River [41]. However this was done with no discussion in the talkpage and I think without any foundation. The variant "Aghstev" is used in English sources as Encyclopedia Britanica and UN publications, besides "Aghstev river" gets in google more hits than "Aghstafa river". Can you please move it back to the original title or can you tell if I may/can do it myself? Thank you for your attention. --Vacio (talk) 06:09, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

NK versions

Happy New Year. I'm thinking of speedy reverting the whole stuff to this version by Grandmaster per talk (an edit by 71.80.173.203 would go away as well). Capasitor should stick entirely to good-faith edits if he is unable to comprehend the consensus on sources. --Brandспойт 12:15, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

A request at WP:POVN was filled. --Brandспойт 07:48, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Spacewalks FL demotion

I posted a few questions hereabout the work needed to return List of spacewalks and moonwalks to FL status. I noticed you had participated in the demotion discussion. Would you care to comment on my questions? Thanks. WVhybrid (talk) 04:14, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Project Congress

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Hey - I see that you have been making comments on my Talk Page that I didn't see because they got stuck in the middle of a bunch of bot-generated posts. I actually thought that you had been reverting my edits without providing me an explanation and was getting pretty annoyed.

Anyhow, I still don't understand your rationale. Who the hell is "FLC" and why am I supposed to know what they have "decided"?

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Where is this discussion? Adam_sk (talk) 03:33, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the correction on List of Governors of Arizona. It's sometimes confusing, as the states number their Governor differently (some via individual & some via office tenure). GoodDay (talk) 15:29, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

I wonder how many other Governor articles are not corresponding with their respective List of Governors... articles. GoodDay (talk) 15:33, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Yep, it can be a 'hair pulling' experience. GoodDay (talk) 15:44, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

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Messages from Eric Edwards

I am very sorry if i offended you, but i am new to Wikipedia (i signed up today) and i don't know rules. I am sorry to hear that some previous incidents with editing have occurred. My edits were made in good spirit, and i didn't mean any harm. If you accept my apologize, please left me note on my talk page. --Eric Edwards 22:01, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

I just tried to experiment, today and past few days (since i signed up). I have Sandbox, but i don't know how to use it; maybe you can give some instructions to me on my talk page. And please, don't be angry at me, i am still new on Wikipedia. --Eric Edwards 18:42, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your understanding and for your explanation about Sandbox, but i have this question for you: How can i remove headline "User:Eric Edwards/Sandbox" from my personal Sandbox? Is this possible? I want that my edits on Sandbox have same headlines as original articles. Then i will be able to experiment without interfering with originals. I hope that you can help me. If you can, please left me note on my talk page. --Eric Edwards 22:40, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your response, but if there is no way to remove that headline, then i have a problem, because it's crucial for my experiment that page which i create in Sandbox looks like original. Then i must continue to experiment as i did in last few days (maybe you noticed that i never vandalized pages on Wikipedia, i just changed them for about 30 seconds and immidieately after my experiment i restored all content as it existed earlier). Please don't say that i vandalize pages, because i only changed them for a very limited period of time. I realy likes Wikipedia and would never destroy anything on this (and any other) site. Please left me note on my talk page. --Eric Edwards 14;20, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

I will be very happy to answer your question, and i intent to be very open: Purpose of this experiment is, in essence, my hobby. I print articles (mainly lists of rulers) from Wikipedia and place it in plastic folders which have 79 pages. If some article is too much long, i have to short it and then i print it. In that plastic folders i divided lists of monarchs, presidents and PM's by regions in wich their countries are: For example, folder "Western Europe" contains lists of rulers of France, Belgium, Netherlands, etc. Folder "North Africa" contains lists of rulers of Egypt, Morocco, Libya, Algeria and Tunisia. I unterstand if all of this sounds weird to you, but that is my hobby and i love to do it. If you like to comment this, please left me note on my talk page. --Eric Edwards 22:35, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

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Lists of lieutenant governors

Hi Golbez,

I must apologize. My statement that "the plural form of personal titles should not be capitalized" is not the universal truism I thought it was. Based on personal experience and observation, I was under the impression that this was the case. I was working on the lists of lieutenant governors of Canadian provinces and found that all but one of them employed the lowercase in the list title (where the personal title is plural) and the capital in the title of the article about the position (where the personal title is singular). I listed the one Canadian list which varied from this format (List of Lieutenant Governors of Newfoundland and Labrador) on Wikipedia:Requested moves, requesting that it be reformatted to match the others, and it was done without question (it is now List of lieutenant governors of Newfoundland and Labrador). When I noticed that the analagous lists for American states employed capitals as well, I believed that moving them to lowercase was as uncontroversial as the list of lieutenant governors of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Now that the lists have been moved, what do you feel we should do? As far as I can tell, both captial and lowercase formats are acceptable, although I wouldn't mind having confirmation on that. I do, however, believe that there is value in standardization. If the American lists are moved back to capitals, I would like to have the same done with the Canadian and Indian lists for consistency. If there's no external reason for variation, then there shouldn't be any. I hope we can work out a mutually acceptable agreement on this matter. Again, I apologize for enacting these moves without first making sure that my reasoning was justified.

Neelix (talk) 23:05, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

ok boss

ok, i am targeting - but you say nothing about other users? thank you for "helping" me! and also being "fair"! maybe if you will be respectful and considerate to me, I can reciprocate behavior. 216.165.12.158 (talk) 01:34, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

also, baki66 and baku87 not same user with different sock, even similiar user pages? really I am targeting or being targeted?216.165.12.158 (talk) 01:36, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

ok boss, i will revert to my version and if he has good version or explanation why to use shusha instead of shushi, which is current and common name then we will talk about it and possibly making accomodations. also see igdir page - i do not thing because the city is prominent for it's azerbaijani prostitutes it is reason to include the name of town in that language.216.165.12.158 (talk) 01:48, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Yes, but you are very Azerbaijani phile., because every time you are ok if azerbaijani makes shusha but u expel armenian when he says shushi. also, I have seen gamblimng of system and sockpuppeting since grandmaster-baki66 and baku87 are all doing same thing and 2 bakus are same account.

you see, when armenian person article is changed from shushi to shusha you protect azerbaijanis, but now let them have taste of their own medicine. editing of these 2 communities is very undisciplined. 216.165.12.158 (talk) 01:52, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

it is not only baki makeing edits, so if he stops another "friend" takes over and you do not protect me and join in attack or protect/condone attack of your azerbaijani associates.216.165.12.158 (talk) 01:54, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Ok, so one baku will stop reverting me. but other baki will be ok to do it, like gang attack? I am too tired now, i must go from internet.but this interference must stop.216.165.12.158 (talk) 02:00, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

blind reverts

You are a admin, right? And you think they are „blind reverts“[42] They are not „blind reverts“, but correct revert. Thats my opinion. I see, whats going on here. I think it is not ok, if this IP user: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/216.165.12.158 making false edits. Why he was not warned earlier. You can see edits like this[43] [44] what about that [45] by User_Talk:Eupator He has written to baku87 "Your map is just fascist regurgitation" that means „you are a fascist“. Such attacks are not acceptable. Most users want to keep the map and the map was not deleted, which means other users can use the map. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Sardur has made many reverts too. Please read it too. Thanks --Baki66 (talk) 19:50, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

You're a pro Armenian admin. You know that the name of this city is officially Shusha. Reason for what? For this reverts. You know that. He changed the name to shushi. And te map is officially from 1920. Bye --Baki66 (talk) 20:22, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

huh / huh?

Hello, from reading your discussion page I can tell you may have some issues interacting with people in a congenial way but I'm happy to politely and proactively entertain your questions for the time being, though they're rapidly becoming non-germane and frivolous so I'd ask you to think carefully about future comments you leave so that I'm not totally inundated with nonsensical and frothing vitriol. Thanks!

Oh? [1] You requested an A7 speedy when A7 clearly did not apply (there are third party sources and notability is asserted).

Correction: there was a 3-page article with 1 first-party source.

I'm referring to you removing a reference to TBTL from the article on the song it uses for its intro;

that is correct; it was a warranted and necessary deletion and I stand by it - there are 9,000 radio stations in America, one could probably guess at least 20,000 local radio shows each with their own theme song; clearly that level of minutia would quickly overwhelm wikipedia and I stand by the edit and am ready to make the same edit again if necessary

New users are people too; just like you.

If I didn't reply to the note by Arxiloxos it was probably because it was frivolous. I honestly have other things to do and don't have an infinite amount of time to reply to every little note someone leaves. Article discussion boards are the correct place to discuss and debate edits; in that way the entire community can be involved in an open, transparent way. If Arxiloxos left a note that warranted a reply I'd reply to it. I can't recall what he said but, if I didn't reply, it was only because it was frivolous and silly. I'm a serious person and have little patience for silliness and tomfoolery.

You requested protection when someone reverted some of your changes

Correction: people vandalized the article by deleting 22 of 23 verifiable citations. This is not "some changes."

it seemed obvious to me that it was purely a retaliatory move

I guess we're all entitled to our opinions. In this case I have to disagree with your assessment.

I'm going to keep an eye on these articles and clean them up

If you like. I'll replace my original entries, which included 22 verifiable citations that were ruled critical to the article, sometime in the next couple weeks when I'm not as busy. Regrettably I'm OOT right now and my free time is limited.

Thanks again for your input. I don't think this is a necessary or productive conversation to pursue so please don't construe my correction of your note as an invitation to continue it.

Warmest Regards! Notabilitypatrol (talk) 21:09, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

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